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CVE-2017-9040
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-18T01:29:01.940 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:22.573

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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