Bug 159888

Summary:	CVE-2005-1704 Integer overflow in libelf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	elfutils	Assignee:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=low,public=20050525,reported=20050504,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0354	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	159908, 181409

Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:04:34 UTC

Integer overflow in the BFD library for libelf before 6.3 allows attackers to
execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that specifies a large number
of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:05:24 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:08:45 UTC

elfutils is not in RHEL2.1, my mistake.

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-10 18:28:41 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0354.html