High
Security advisory
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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-8398
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- 1 Nov 2026, 07:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-8398
Complete source record
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