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CVE ID: | CVE-2017-9040 |
Description: | 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. |
Test IDs: | None available |
Cross References: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-9040 BugTraq ID: 98579 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/ https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf |