CVE-2017-12457: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL dereference via a crafted file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.29

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