Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201783940000000
Revision Date:2017-05-01Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-8394 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-8394
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND binutils package in xenial is affected and may need fixing.
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