Denial of Service Vulnerability in getsym Function of libbfd

CVE-2017-12967 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The getsym function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.

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