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CVE-2017-9038 (GCVE-0-2017-9038)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-18 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:55
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Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-05-17 00:00
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