Bug 1435648 – CVE-2017-6969 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in readelf when processing corrupt RL78 binaries

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Bug 1435648 - (CVE-2017-6969) CVE-2017-6969 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in readelf when processing corrupt RL78 binaries

Summary:	CVE-2017-6969 binutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in readelf when processin...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-6969

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 08:45 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-05-10 04:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:45:42 EDT

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read while processing corrupt RL78 binaries. The vulnerability can trigger program crashes. It may lead to an information leak as well.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21156

Upstream fixes:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b814a36d3440de95f2ac6eaa4fc7935c322ea456
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=43a444f9c5bfd44b4304eafd78338e21d54bea14

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 08:58:44 EDT

Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]

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