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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
09/13/2019
Added
09/12/2019
Modified
09/12/2019

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.

Solution(s)

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

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