Bug 2174108

Summary:	CVE-2023-25587 binutils: NULL pointer segmentation fault when accessing field `the_bfd` in function `compare_symbols` [fedora-37]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	37	CC:	aoliva, dvlasenk, fweimer, jakub, nickc, sipoyare, yahmad
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Last Closed:	2023-03-01 13:54:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2167504

Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-02-28 17:30:58 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167504

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-02-28 17:31:01 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=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2167504,2174108

# 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 2023-03-01 13:54:11 UTC

This bug can only triggered by using specially crafted, corrupt input files.
As such it will not normally be encountered by users, and fixing it is not
important enough to warrant a backport.  The upstream GNU Binutils sources 
have already been fixed, and the fix is in the rawhide release.