CVE-2017-9041

Published: 18 May 2017

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 MIPS GOT mishandling in the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c.

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package Release Status
binutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.28-6)
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Not vulnerable
(2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.1)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Needed

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Needed

Patches:
Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75ec1fdbb797a389e4fe4aaf2e15358a070dcc19
Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c4ab9505b53cdc899506ed421fddb7e1f8faf7a3

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