Bug 1449553 – CVE-2017-8398 binutils: Out-of-bounds read while dumping the debug information from a corrupt binary

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Bug 1449553 - (CVE-2017-8398) CVE-2017-8398 binutils: Out-of-bounds read while dumping the debug information from a corrupt binary

Summary:	CVE-2017-8398 binutils: Out-of-bounds read while dumping the debug informatio...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-8398

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

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Reported:	2017-05-10 05:05 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-05-10 05:09 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 05:05:10 EDT

dwarf.c in GNU Binutils is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21438

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