Bug 1469603 (CVE-2017-9745)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9745 binutils: Heap buffer over-read in _bfd_vms_slurp_etir function when handling VMS alpha binaries
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
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, kanderso, klember, ktietz, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On:	1469604, 1469605
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-11 14:29:36 UTC

The _bfd_vms_slurp_etir function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21579

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=76800cba595efc3fe95a446c2d664e42ae4ee869

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Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-11 14:31:06 UTC

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1469604]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1469605]