The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.
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.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binutils | Gnu | 2.28 (including) | 2.28 (including) |
| Binutils | Ubuntu | artful | * |
| 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 | * |