CVE-2017-9040

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-476

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.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
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=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
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=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf

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