Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.28

CVE-2017-9038 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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