CVE-2017-9039 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling8 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 13

Description

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.

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-ffmr-8p66-95px: GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-9039: GNU Binutils 2↗2017-05-18
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CVEList
CVE-2017-9039: 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: Memory consumption via many program headers↗2017-05-12
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Debian
CVE-2017-9039: binutils - GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory c...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9039 binutils: Memory consumption via many program headers↗2017-05-18
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CVE-2017-9039 — GNU Binutils vulnerability | cvebase