High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-12454
CVE-2017-12454
Description
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.
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