CVE-2017-9038: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.