Bug 1553119 (CVE-2018-7643)

Summary: CVE-2018-7643 binutils: Integer overflow in the display_debug_ranges function resulting in crash
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, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On: 1551786, 1551787, 1553122, 1579802    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-08 10:53:10 UTC 
The display_debug_ranges function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22905

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d11ae95ea3403559f052903ab053f43ad7821e37
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-08 10:57:27 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1551786]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1551787]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:24:00 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3032 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032