CVE-2017-9038 | BDVDB-2026-85559 Detail

Description#

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 byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-05-18Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.