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CVE-2017-12967
medium
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.
References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21962