Bug 159892

Summary:	CAN-2005-1704 Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	libelf	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:16:40 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #159888 +++

Integer overflow in the BFD library for libelf 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 Jakub Jelinek 2005-06-09 15:43:44 UTC

Although libelf is shipped in AS2.1, it is completely different codebase
from elfutils' libelf (RHEL3+).  AS2.1 libelf is only shipped as static library
(libelf.a) and to my knowledge nothing in the distro links against it.