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CVE-2017-8393

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.89%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-05-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-8393
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.89%

Original NVD Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a global buffer over-read error because of an assumption made by code that runs for objcopy and strip, that SHT_REL/SHR_RELA sections are always named starting with a .rel/.rela prefix. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy and strip, to crash.

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