Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20179040000
Revision Date:2017-05-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-9040 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-9040
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND The 'binutils' package in cosmic is affected and needs fixing.
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