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GHSA-q662-m56g-5hm7
GHSA-q662-m56g-5hm7
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038 advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes url
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 url
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589 url