CVE-2017-12457 (NVD)

2017-08-04

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.

Products Binutils
Type NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21840