Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1483597
CVE-2017-12453 binutils: out of bounds heap read in __bfd_vms_slurp_eeom function
Last modified: 2017-08-21 09:12:31 EDT
The _bfd_vms_slurp_eeom function in libbfd.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 read via a crafted vms alpha file. Upstream bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21813
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483604] Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1483603] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483605]