{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.29.90.20180122-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.29.90.20180122-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.29.90.20180122-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NC93RV6R9FDDWCBCK3C7KM","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:45.484608827Z","published_at":"2017-12-04T08:29:00.577Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17124","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17124"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17124#Debian:13/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17124"}],"summary":"The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the extern"}