Bug 1435632 – CVE-2017-7209 binutils: Null pointer dereference in dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf

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Bug 1435632 - (CVE-2017-7209) CVE-2017-7209 binutils: Null pointer dereference in dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf

Summary:	CVE-2017-7209 binutils: Null pointer dereference in dump_section_as_bytes fun...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7209

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

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Depends On:	1435307 1435308 1435309
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Reported:	2017-03-24 08:24 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-03-26 18:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:24:33 EDT

The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21135

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f055032e4e922f1e1a5e11026c7c2669fa2a7d19

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:57:55 EDT

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:58:04 EDT

Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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