NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (55th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-525122
- published 18 May 2017
- disclosed 18 May 2017
Introduced: 18 May 2017
CVE-2017-9040 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.29-1 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 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9040
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98579
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9040
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf