Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.61% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-519966
- published 18 May 2017
- disclosed 18 May 2017
Introduced: 18 May 2017
CVE-2017-9041 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.28-6 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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 MIPS GOT mishandling in the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c.
References
- ADVISORY
- Gentoo Security Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75ec1fdbb797a389e4fe4aaf2e15358a070dcc19
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c4ab9505b53cdc899506ed421fddb7e1f8faf7a3
- Security Focus
- Ubuntu CVE Tracker
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org