CVE-2017-12453

7.8 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.8) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
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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