PT-2017-18314

CVE-2017-8393

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Published

2017-05-01

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.5
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28
Description The Binary File Descriptor library is prone to a global buffer over-read error due to an incorrect assumption about the naming of SHT REL/SHR RELA sections. This issue affects programs that analyze binary programs using the library, such as objcopy and strip, causing them to crash.
Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
MGASA-2019-0169
OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3223-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1
SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1
SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1
SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2
USN-4336-2
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