CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12453

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-08-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-08-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The _bfd_vms_slurp_eeom function in libbfd.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap read via a crafted vms alpha file.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils (<= 2.29)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References