diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.28.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.28.inc
index a2b2901b63..fe9059a514 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.28.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.28.inc
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ SRC_URI = "\
      file://CVE-2017-9753.patch \
      file://CVE-2017-9755.patch \
      file://CVE-2017-9756.patch \
+     file://CVE-2017-9954.patch \
 "
 S  = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2017-9954.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2017-9954.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a9d7ebd9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2017-9954.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+From 04e15b4a9462cb1ae819e878a6009829aab8020b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:46:34 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix address violation parsing a corrupt texhex format file.
+
+	PR binutils/21670
+	* tekhex.c (getvalue): Check for the source pointer exceeding the
+	end pointer before the first byte is read.
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+CVE: CVE_2017-9954
+Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
+
+---
+ bfd/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
+ bfd/tekhex.c  | 6 +++++-
+ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+Index: git/bfd/tekhex.c
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/bfd/tekhex.c
++++ git/bfd/tekhex.c
+@@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ getvalue (char **srcp, bfd_vma *valuep,
+   bfd_vma value = 0;
+   unsigned int len;
+ 
++  if (src >= endp)
++    return FALSE;
++
+   if (!ISHEX (*src))
+     return FALSE;
+ 
+@@ -514,9 +517,10 @@ pass_over (bfd *abfd, bfd_boolean (*func
+   /* To the front of the file.  */
+   if (bfd_seek (abfd, (file_ptr) 0, SEEK_SET) != 0)
+     return FALSE;
++
+   while (! is_eof)
+     {
+-      char src[MAXCHUNK];
++      static char src[MAXCHUNK];
+       char type;
+ 
+       /* Find first '%'.  */
+Index: git/bfd/ChangeLog
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/bfd/ChangeLog
++++ git/bfd/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
++2017-06-26  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
++ 
++       PR binutils/21670
++       * tekhex.c (getvalue): Check for the source pointer exceeding the
++       end pointer before the first byte is read.
++
+ 2017-06-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+ 
+        PR binutils/21582