Bug 1449546 (CVE-2017-8394) - CVE-2017-8394 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the _bfd_elf_large_com_section
Summary: CVE-2017-8394 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the _bfd_elf_large_com_se...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-8394
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-05-10 08:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-10 09:09:13 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 08:58:46 UTC 
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash. 

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
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