CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12457

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-476

Description

The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL dereference via a crafted file.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils (<= 2.29)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References