CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9039
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-770
Description
GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file with many program headers, related to the get_program_headers function in readelf.c.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98580 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=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5 sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98580 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=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5 sourceware.org