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CVE-2017-6965
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-17T09:59:00.350 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:23:23.563

Summary

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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References

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