CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12967

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-08-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The getsym function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.29

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References