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CVE-2017-12454
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-04T15:29:00.557 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:03:19.967

Summary

The _bfd_vms_slurp_egsd function in bfd/vms-alpha.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 arbitrary memory read via a crafted vms alpha file.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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