Bug 1435300 (CVE-2017-7226)

Summary: CVE-2017-7226 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in pe_ILF_object_p function in libbfd
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, fweimer, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 14:06:27 UTC 
The pe_ILF_object_p function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read of size 4049 because it uses the strlen function instead of strnlen, leading to program crashes in several utilities such as addr2line, size, and strings. It could lead to information disclosure as well.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20905

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=fa6631b4eecfcca00c13b9594e6336dffd40982f
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 14:14:42 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]