CVE-2017-7614: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.