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CVE-2017-9038

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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: 2.28

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d

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