CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9042

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-05-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-704

Description

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "cannot be represented in type long" issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.28

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness

References