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CVE-2017-9042

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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-704

Description

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "cannot be represented in type long" issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

• 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
• 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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