CVE-2017-9040

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9040
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9040.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9040
Related
Published
2017-05-18T01:29:01Z
Modified
2024-06-30T12:00:03Z
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 2017-04-03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the processmipsspecific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.29-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.29-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.29-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}