CVE-2017-8397

7.5 highEPSS 1.9%

High (7.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2017-05-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21434
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21434

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