CVE-2017-7209

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

1%p67

Published

Mar 21, 2017 (Mar 21, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

Vendors: gnu
Products: binutils
Weakness: CWE-476
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.2%)

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