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CVE-2017-12967

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100462
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21962
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100462
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21962

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