Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-12967
CVE-2017-12967
Description
The getsym function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.
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