CVE-2017-8392

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.

Date published : 2017-05-01

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21409

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02