Bug 1524498 (CVE-2017-17126)

Summary: CVE-2017-17126 binutils: Invalid memory access in the load_debug_section function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, dvlasenk, erik-fedora, jakub, kanderso, klember, ktietz, law, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:47:26 UTC 
The load_debug_section function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an ELF file that lacks section headers.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22510

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f425ec6600b69e39eb605f3128806ff688137ea8
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:48:20 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499311]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1499310]