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CVE-2017-9040

Published: 5/18/2017 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 5/17/2017

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (3)

bap-std clangml conf-binutils

Products affected (0)

No product listed.

References (16)