CVE-2017-9038
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.36%Published: 5/18/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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 the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.28-r3
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.28-6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |