CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-9042.md

CVE-2017-9042

Description

readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2017-04-12 has a "cannot be represented in type long" issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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