7.5

CVE-2017-8392: gnu binutils NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-8392
Published 01-05-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8392 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 1.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.45%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 4
MGASA-2019-0169OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.45%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

73%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.45% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.45%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Gnu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • binutils< 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.1

2 vendors · 2 products

References

4 links