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CVE-2017-9040 - log back

CVE-2017-9040 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Medium
Remote	+ Local
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ GNU Binutils 2017-04-03 allows 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.
References	+ https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=7296a62a2a237f6b1ad8db8c38b090e9f592c8cf
Notes	+ Reproducer: https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00272-binutils-memallocfailure + Fixed: 2.29