CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7614

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 09, 2017 | Modified: Sep 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Binutils Gnu 2.28 (including) 2.28 (including)
Binutils Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Binutils Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Binutils Ubuntu precise *
Binutils Ubuntu precise/esm *
Binutils Ubuntu trusty *
Binutils Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Binutils Ubuntu upstream *
Binutils Ubuntu xenial *
Binutils Ubuntu yakkety *
Binutils Ubuntu zesty *

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