Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.36% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-BINUTILS-403602
- published 18 May 2017
- disclosed 18 May 2017
Introduced: 18 May 2017
CVE-2017-9039 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9039
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9039
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98580
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5