CVE-2017-9039: 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 (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file with many program headers, related to the get_program_headers function in readelf.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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