CVE-2017-9040

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-05-18

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf