CVE-2017-12454 is a high-severity arbitrary memory read vulnerability affecting the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (libbfd), specifically within GNU Binutils versions 2.29 and earlier. An attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious VMS Alpha file, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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