dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-17350 dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-2 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.937Z

Reserved: 2017-05-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8398

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-01T18:59:00.370

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

Link: CVE-2017-8398

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Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-8398 - Bugzilla

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