CVE-2017-9752

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file in the _bfd_vms_get_value and _bfd_vms_slurp_etir functions during "objdump -D" execution.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99122
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21589
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99122
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21589

Get alerted when CVE-2017-9752 or the next vulnerability affects your stack