CVE-2017-9038

medium

Published 2017-05-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

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 the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.28-6`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.28-6`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.28-6`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.28-6`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.28-6`
arch		fixed	`2.29.0-1`
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	binutils	`2.28`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.