High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-8396
CVE-2017-8396
Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 because the existing reloc offset range tests didn't catch small negative offsets less than the size of the reloc field. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.
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References
2- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02nvd
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