Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
3.3% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075188
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The elf_read_notesfunction in bfd/elf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file.