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CVE-2017-17123

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The coff_slurp_reloc_table function in coffcode.h in 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted COFF based file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29.1

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22509
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=4581a1c7d304ce14e714b27522ebf3d0188d6543
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22509
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=4581a1c7d304ce14e714b27522ebf3d0188d6543

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