CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9040
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-476
Description
GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579 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=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579 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=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf sourceware.org