CVE-2017-7614 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Binutils

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference8 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedApr 9
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.28-4+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.28

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-jmr6-pw55-q334: elflink↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-7614: elflink↗2017-04-09
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CVEList
CVE-2017-7614: elflink↗2017-04-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Red Hat
binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function↗2017-04-05
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Debian
CVE-2017-7614: binutils - elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distribut...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7614 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function↗2017-04-10
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