Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 9, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7614
CVE-2017-7614
Description
elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.
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References
2- blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02nvd
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