Bug 1435287 (CVE-2017-7225)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7225 binutils: Null pointer dereference and invalid write in find_nearest_line function in addr2line
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On:	1435307, 1435308, 1435309
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 13:53:21 UTC

The find_nearest_line function in addr2line in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not handle the case where the main file name and the directory name are both empty, triggering a NULL pointer dereference and an invalid write, and leading to a program crash.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20891

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=50455f1ab2935f7321215dfa681745c9b1cb5b19

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 14:14:26 UTC

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435307]