High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-12458
CVE-2017-12458
Description
The nlm_swap_auxiliary_headers_in function in bfd/nlmcode.h 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 nlm file.
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