CVE-2017-9038 — Out-of-bounds Read in Binutils

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow8 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedMay 18
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.28-6+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.28

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q662-m56g-5hm7: GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2017-9038: GNU Binutils 2↗2017-05-18
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OSV
CVE-2017-9038: GNU Binutils 2↗2017-05-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Red Hat
binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the byte_get_little_endian↗2017-05-12
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Debian
CVE-2017-9038: binutils - GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-bas...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9038 binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the byte_get_little_endian↗2017-05-18
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