Bug 1333322 – CVE-2016-2226 gcc: Exploitable buffer overflow

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Bug 1333322 - (CVE-2016-2226) CVE-2016-2226 gcc: Exploitable buffer overflow

Summary:	CVE-2016-2226 gcc: Exploitable buffer overflow

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2226

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1333389 1333388
Blocks:	1333338
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Reported:	2016-05-05 05:46 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-12-18 17:28 EST (History)
CC List:	16 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-08-07 09:28:14 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-05 05:46:15 EDT

A vulnerability was found in libiberty when demangling some specific mangled functions. A particularly malicious attacker could craft an executable that executes when *analysed* by objdump, nm or gdb, or any other libiberty-based forensics tool (if the demangling option is switched on).

External references:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69687

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/238

Upstream fix:

https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=234829

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-05 08:10:36 EDT

Created msp430-gcc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1333388]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-05 08:10:42 EDT

Created mingw-gcc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1333389]

Comment 3 Raphael Sanchez Prudencio 2017-08-08 07:56:45 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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