CVE-2017-9743 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Binutils

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedJun 19
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis.c:552 in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.29-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.28

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wfw3-r82j-3xp6: The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-9743: The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis↗2017-06-19
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OSV
CVE-2017-9743: The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis↗2017-06-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
binutils: Global buffer over-read in print_insn_score32 function while disassembling corrupt score binary↗2017-06-18
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Debian
CVE-2017-9743: binutils - The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis.c:552 in GNU Binutils 2.28...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9743 binutils: stack overflow in print_insn_score32 function [fedora-all]↗2017-07-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9743 binutils: Global buffer over-read in print_insn_score32 function while disassembling corrupt score binary↗2017-07-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9743 mingw-binutils: binutils: stack overflow in print_insn_score32 function [epel-all]↗2017-07-11
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CVE-2017-9743 — GNU Binutils vulnerability | cvebase