High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-17121
CVE-2017-17121
Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.
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