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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-8397

CVE-2017-8397

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 and an invalid write of size 1 during processing of a corrupt binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.

Affected products

15

Patches

0

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