Bug 1680673

Summary:	CVE-2019-9076 binutils: excessive memory allocation in function elf_read_notes in elf.c [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	29	CC:	aoliva, dvlasenk, fweimer, jakub, nickc
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Last Closed:	2019-02-26 12:08:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1680672

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-25 13:52:07 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions at
the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each other,
you may clone this bug as appropriate.

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-25 13:52:09 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=low

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1680672,1680673

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Nick Clifton 2019-02-26 12:08:32 UTC

This is not a CVE.  A corrupt input file is causing one of the binutils tools
to attempt to allocate more memory than is available on the host machine.  Under
normal circumstances this allocation will fail, the tool will detect the failure
and correctly report an "out of memory" error.  The CVE was filed against a version
of the tool which had been compiled with address sanitization enabled, which
meant that the over-large memory allocation was caught and flagged as an error
before the tool could handle it.