Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12

Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12

CVE-2017-9042 · MEDIUM Severity

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

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "cannot be represented in type long" issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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