CVE-2017-12454

7.8 highEPSS 1.6%

High (7.8) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% 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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