CVE-2017-12459

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12459
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12459.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12459
Downstream
Published
2017-08-04T15:29:00.730Z
Modified
2026-08-18T09:53:49.106222Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The bfdmachoreadsymtab_strtab function in bfd/mach-o.c 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 write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted mach-o file.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830
Database specific
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{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.29"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12459.json"