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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9039: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9039: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file with many program headers, related to the get_program_headers function in readelf.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

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