CVE-2017-8392

Name	CVE-2017-8392
Description	The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	bullseye	2.35.2-2	fixed
	bookworm	2.40-2	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.43.90.20250127-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- binutils <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21409
Fixed by: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=97e83a100aa8250be783304bfe0429761c6e6b6b
Introduced by: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=3239a4231ff79bf8b67b8faaf414b1667486167c