7.5

CVE-2017-8394: gnu binutils NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-8394DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8394
Published 01-05-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8394 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.6% 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
1.84%
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 6 · Related 5
MGASA-2019-0169OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2USN-4336-2

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 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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.84%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.84% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.84%

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

Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.28-5
Gnu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • binutilsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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