CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-9040.md

CVE-2017-9040

Description

GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash), related to the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c, via a crafted ELF file that triggers a large memory-allocation attempt.

POC

Reference

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

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list