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Vulnerability details: VCID-zg4d-pabs-aaap
Vulnerability ID VCID-zg4d-pabs-aaap
Aliases CVE-2017-9038
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-9038.html
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generic_textual Low https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452167
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9038
cvssv3.1 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-276
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-9038.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9038.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9038
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9038
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98589
1452167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452167
863674 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863674
AVG-276 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-276
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-9038 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9038.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9038
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.4469
EPSS Score 0.00242
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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