{"id":"CVE-2017-8395","details":"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.","modified":"2026-07-08T11:36:32.568388Z","published":"2017-05-01T18:59:00.277Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21431"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7"},{"last_affected":"7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2.28"},{"last_affected":"2.28"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["2.28","binutils-2_28"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8395.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}