CVE-2017-9040

Publication date

2017-05-18 01:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows remote 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.