CVE-2017-7614

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7614
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7614.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7614
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-04-09T14:59:00.870Z
Modified
2026-07-09T00:03:47.745570Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.

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 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.28"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.28"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.28
Other
binutils-2_28

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7614.json"