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CVE-2017-17121
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-04T08:29:00.483 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:22.310

Summary

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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