CVE-2017-9043

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-20

Description

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "shift exponent too large for type unsigned 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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98591
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=ddef72cdc10d82ba011a7ff81cafbbd3466acf54
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98591
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=ddef72cdc10d82ba011a7ff81cafbbd3466acf54

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