CVE-2017-12451: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.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 stack read via a crafted COFF image file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.29

Published 2017-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.