Bug 1492129 (CVE-2017-14333)

Summary: CVE-2017-14333 binutils: Insuficient input validation in process_version_sections function in readelf.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, erik-fedora, jakub, jan.kratochvil, kanderso, klember, ktietz, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-09-15 14:22:45 UTC 
The process_version_sections function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows
attackers to cause a denial of service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a
time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
binary file with invalid values of ent.vn_next, during "readelf -a" execution.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21990

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=452bf675ea772002aa86fb1d28f3474da70ee1de

References:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058480
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14333.html
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-09-15 14:23:33 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1492130]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1492131]