Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201783950000000
Revision Date:2017-05-01Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-8395 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 write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. 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-2017-8395
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 needs fixing.
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