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CVE-2017-9040

Published: May 18, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/

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