CVE-2017-7614 (GCVE-0-2017-7614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-09 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:12
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Summary
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.
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