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CVE-2017-12455

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12455 is an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability affecting the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (libbfd) in GNU Binutils versions 2.29 and earlier. An attacker can trigger this flaw by providing a specially crafted VMS Alpha file, leading to potential high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While rated as high severity (CVSS 7.8), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: binutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-12455Low

binutils: out of bounds heap read in evax_bfd_print_emh function

Jul 26, 2017

References

sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory