CVE-2017-7614: GNU Binutils

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.