Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
2.07% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075198
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 May 2017

CVE-2017-9039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file with many program headers, related to the get_program_headers function in readelf.c.