CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12459

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-787

Description

The bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_strtab function in bfd/mach-o.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 write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted mach-o file.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils (<= 2.29)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References