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CVE-2017-12453
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-04T15:29:00.513 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:03:19.837

Summary

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 products

gnu — binutils

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