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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.36% (72nd percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILS-1986157
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 May 2017
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Introduced: 12 May 2017

CVE-2017-9039 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.