{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.28-5 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.28-5","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.28-5"],"id":"tcs_01M5NCPMV6ZMKNP2DWPYY01ESQ","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:51.035240442Z","published_at":"2017-05-01T18:59:00.277Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8395","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8395"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8395#Debian:14/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8395"}],"summary":"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 memor"}