Bug 1435247 (CVE-2017-7224) - CVE-2017-7224 binutils: Invalid write in find_nearest_line function
Summary: CVE-2017-7224 binutils: Invalid write in find_nearest_line function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7224
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1435307 1435308 1435309
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-23 13:01 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:09:29 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 13:01:17 UTC 
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 14:14:10 UTC 
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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