Bug 1469646 (CVE-2017-9753)

Summary: CVE-2017-9753 binutils: Address violation in versados_mkobject function when disassembling a corrupt versados binary
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, jakub, kanderso, klember, ktietz, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-11 15:06:49 UTC 
The versados_mkobject function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not initialize a certain data structure, which 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=21591

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=04f963fd489cae724a60140e13984415c205f4ac

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Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-11 15:07:21 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1469648]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1469647]