CVE-2017-7225: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The find_nearest_line function in addr2line in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not handle the case where the main file name and the directory name are both empty, triggering a NULL pointer dereference and an invalid write, and leading to a program crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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