CVE-2017-12454: GNU Binutils

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

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.29

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