Out-of-Bounds Heap Read Vulnerability in libbfd

CVE-2017-12458 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The nlm_swap_auxiliary_headers_in function in bfd/nlmcode.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap read via a crafted nlm file.

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