CVE-2017-8398: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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