CyberRota Analysis
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2017-9040
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
2.07%
Original NVD Description
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.