vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9040: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 18, 2017
Added
Sep 12, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

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.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutilshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutils-devel
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