CVE-2017-7209

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7209
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7209.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7209
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-21T06:59:00Z
Modified
2026-08-28T14:01:36Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
Last Affected
7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.28"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.28"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.28
Other
binutils-2_28

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7209.json"