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ghsa-h5jj-8626-gmp4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 00:53

Modified

2025-04-20 03:37

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2017-9040 (GCVE-0-2017-9040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-05-18 01:00

Modified

2024-08-05 16:55

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

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

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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