CVE-2017-8398

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28

Description The issue arises from an invalid read of size 1 during the dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary in the dwarf.c file. This causes programs like objdump and readelf, which analyze binary programs, to crash.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent programs like objdump and readelf from crashing when analyzing corrupt binaries.