CVE-2017-8398

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    CVE-2017-8398

    Published: 1 May 2017Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21438

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.28

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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