PT-2017-18666 · Gnu+1 · Gnu Binutils+1

Published 2017-05-18 · Updated 2019-05-12 · CVE-2017-9043

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2017-04-12

Description The issue in readelf.c might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to an application crash, or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a crafted ELF file.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2017-04-12, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as using a crafted ELF file could lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9043

MGASA-2019-0169

SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1

Affected Products

Gnu Binutils

Suse

References · 173

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9043 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/37N6SA4WSBTFWAMPQXHSO7JRJQ6EIIO5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9043 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0169.html · Security Note
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_32 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9756 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037072 · Note