CVE-2017-12450

7.8 highEPSS 1.9%

High (7.8) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The alpha_vms_object_p 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 out of bounds heap write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted vms alpha file.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2017-08-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21813
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21813

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