CVE-2017-7224: GNU Binutils

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

The find_nearest_line function in objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid write (of size 1) while disassembling a corrupt binary that contains an empty function name, leading to a program crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.