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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-9038: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-9038: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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