Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.28 via Crafted ELF File

CVE-2017-9041 · 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 MIPS GOT mishandling in the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c.

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