Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1483598
CVE-2017-12454 binutils: Arbitrary memory read in _bfd_vms_slurp_egs function
Last modified: 2017-08-21 09:14:04 EDT
The _bfd_vms_slurp_egsd function in bfd/vms-alpha.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 arbitrary memory 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]