5.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
72.2%
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.
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98580
blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=82156ab704b08b124d319c0decdbd48b3ca2dac5