CVE-2017-9042

Description

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "cannot be represented in type long" issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3