PT-2017-18319

CVE-2017-8398

Published

2017-05-01

Updated

2021-07-21

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 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.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Manh-Dung Nguyen

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-8398

MGASA-2019-0169