CVE-2017-7614
N/A
Published: April 9, 2017 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476
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