CVE-2017-7614
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.36%Published: 4/9/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.28-r1
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.28-4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |