Bug 1440837 (CVE-2017-7614)

Summary: CVE-2017-7614 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yozone, yselkowi
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-05-10 08:49:46 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 1435307, 1435308, 1435309    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:46:21 UTC
elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program. 

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21342

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ad32986fdf9da1c8748e47b8b45100398223dba8

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:57:37 UTC
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]