{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.29-8 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.29-8","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:12","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.29-8"],"id":"tcs_01M5NBZPXHQ083KGCJG4JW811H","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:42.083219687Z","published_at":"2017-08-04T15:29:00.667Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12457","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12457"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12457","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12457"}],"summary":"The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL"}