Bug 1435634 – CVE-2017-7210 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-reads in objdump

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Bug 1435634 - (CVE-2017-7210) CVE-2017-7210 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-reads in objdump

Summary:	CVE-2017-7210 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-reads in objdump

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7210

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 08:27 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-04-02 08:09 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:27:34 EDT

objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to multiple heap-based buffer over-reads (of size 1 and size 8) while handling corrupt STABS enum type strings in a crafted object file, leading to program crash.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21157

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=a2dea0b20bc66a4c287c3c50002b8c3b3e9d953a

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:58:12 EDT

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:58:20 EDT

Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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