PT-2017-19312 · Gnu+1 · Gnu Binutils+1

Owl337 · Published 2017-06-26 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-9955

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 2.28

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a heap-based buffer over-read and application crash, via a crafted file. This occurs when a certain size field is larger than a corresponding data field, as demonstrated by mishandling within the objdump program.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9955

MGASA-2019-0169

SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1

Affected Products

Gnu Binutils

Suse

References · 172

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9955 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9955 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21665 · Patch
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/37N6SA4WSBTFWAMPQXHSO7JRJQ6EIIO5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9955 · 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