Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2017-17121
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.70%
Original Filing — NVD Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.