CVE-2017-9040

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.

References

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3