CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9038
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589 www.securityfocus.com
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589 www.securityfocus.com
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d sourceware.org