CVE-2017-8397 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Binutils

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write8 documents8 sources

Severity

7.5HIGHNVD

EPSS

0.4%

top 38.93%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

GNU Binutils

Timeline

PublishedMay 1

Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.28-5+3

▶NVDgnu/binutils2.28

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-v3qw-w8hm-r423: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-17

▶

CVEList

CVE-2017-8397: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-05-01

▶

OSV

CVE-2017-8397: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-05-01

▶

📋Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu

GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21

▶

Red Hat

binutils: Out-of-bounds read and write while processing binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses↗2017-04-22

▶

Debian

CVE-2017-8397: binutils - The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Bin...↗2017

▶

💬Community

Bugzilla

CVE-2017-8397 binutils: Out-of-bounds read and write while processing binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses↗2017-05-10

▶