{"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_01M5NCPPZ0V1G6SDJ4HT3EP1BQ","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:51.042501618Z","published_at":"2017-05-02T17:59:00.210Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8421","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8421"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8421#Debian:14/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8421"}],"summary":"The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exh"}