CVE-2017-8395: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.