CVE-2017-9038

Medium

Description

GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Gnu Binutils

PublishedMay 18, 2017

First seenMay 18, 2017

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
gnu binutils	2.28	—

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