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Bug 1452168 - (CVE-2017-9039) CVE-2017-9039 binutils: Memory consumption via many program headers
CVE-2017-9039 binutils: Memory consumption via many program headers
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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impact=low,public=20170512,reported=2...
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Reported: 2017-05-18 09:19 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-05-18 09:29 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-18 09:19:26 EDT
GNU Binutils allows 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.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/

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