CVE-2017-7209: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.