NULL Dereference Vulnerability in BFD Library's bfd_make_section_with_flags Function

CVE-2017-12457 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL dereference via a crafted file.

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