vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-12967: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 19, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

The getsym function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.

Solution

debian-upgrade-binutils
Title
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