NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions *
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- published 9 Apr 2017
- disclosed 9 Apr 2017
Introduced: 9 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7614 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7614
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7614
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7614
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/