Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-9038
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 57.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d