PT-2017-18663 · Gnu+2 · Gnu Binutils+2

Published 2017-05-18 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2017-9040

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2017-04-03

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. This is related to the process mips specific function in readelf.c, which can be triggered by a crafted ELF file that attempts to allocate a large amount of memory.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2017-04-03, consider restricting the use of the process mips specific function in readelf.c to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9040

MGASA-2019-0169

SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1

USN-4336-2

Affected Products

Gnu Binutils

Suse

Ubuntu

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