Bug 1435648 (CVE-2017-6969)

Summary: CVE-2017-6969 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in readelf when processing corrupt RL78 binaries
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, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, sardella, yozone, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On: 1435307, 1435308, 1435309    
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 12:45:42 UTC 
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read while processing corrupt RL78 binaries. The vulnerability can trigger program crashes. It may lead to an information leak as well.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21156

Upstream fixes:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b814a36d3440de95f2ac6eaa4fc7935c322ea456
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=43a444f9c5bfd44b4304eafd78338e21d54bea14
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 12:58:44 UTC 
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]