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CVE-2017-12459

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% 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-787

Description

The bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_strtab function in bfd/mach-o.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 out of bounds heap write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted mach-o 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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