CVE-2017-7614

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-7614
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-04-09T14:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-09-19T01:36:56
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-476 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/ Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7614
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7614
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 08:29:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:38:52 2017-04-09T14:59Z 2017-04-09T14:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 15:38:52 2017-09-19T01:36:56 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 15:38:52 Modified Vulnerability Status updated