High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-12451
CVE-2017-12451
Description
The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.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 stack read via a crafted COFF image file.
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