CVE-2017-9040: GNU Binutils

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

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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