Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-9040  

GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.

AVG-276 binutils 2.28.0-4 2.29.0-1 High Fixed

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf

Reproducer: https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00272-binutils-memallocfailure
Fixed: 2.29