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CVE-2017-9038
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-18T01:29:01.877 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:22.327

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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References

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