Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1449540
CVE-2017-8392 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function
Last modified: 2017-05-10 05:09:13 EDT
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash. Upstream issue: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21409