The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.639Z

Reserved: 2017-05-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8395

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-01T18:59:00.277

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-8395

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-04-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8395 - Bugzilla

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