7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-12451

Published: 04/08/2017 Updated: 07/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and previous versions, allows remote malicious users to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file.

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The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000c and bfd/coff64-rs6000c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 229 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file(CVE-2017-12451) The evax_bfd_print_emh function in vms-alphac in the ...
The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000c and bfd/coff64-rs6000c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 229 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file ...