CVE-2017-9040
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-18 01:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:55
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf
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