Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-8421
CVE-2017-8421
Description
The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.
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