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Bug 1435247 - (CVE-2017-7224) CVE-2017-7224 binutils: Invalid write in find_nearest_line function
CVE-2017-7224 binutils: Invalid write in find_nearest_line function
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20161201,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1435307 1435308 1435309
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Reported: 2017-03-23 09:01 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2017-03-23 10:14 EDT (History)
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 09:01:17 EDT
The find_nearest_line function in objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid write (of size 1) while disassembling a corrupt binary that contains an empty function name, leading to a program crash.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20892

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e82ab856bb4689330c29fb9f1c57a8555b26380e
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 10:14:10 EDT
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435307]

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