Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2017-04-03

CVE-2017-9040 · MEDIUM Severity

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

GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.

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