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CVE-2017-12457

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL dereference via a crafted file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: through 2.29

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21840
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21840

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