ALPINE-CVE-2017-9038

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-9038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-9038.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-9038
Upstream
Published
2017-05-18T01:29:01.877Z
Modified
2026-06-15T18:25:12.885951441Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the bytegetlittleendian function in elfcomm.c, the getunwindsectionword function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.6 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.28-r3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-9038.json"