CVE-2017-9039

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

2%p80

Published

May 18, 2017 (May 18, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: gnu
Products: binutils
Weakness: CWE-770
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.1%)

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