cve/2017/CVE-2017-9040.md

### [CVE-2017-9040](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9040)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
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