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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-8394

CVE-2017-8394

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.

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