Bug 1452167 (CVE-2017-9038) - CVE-2017-9038 binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the byte_get_little_endian
Summary: CVE-2017-9038 binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the byte_get_little_endian
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-9038
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-05-18 13:17 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-18 13:29:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-18 13:17:36 UTC 
GNU Binutils allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets. 

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f32ba72991d2406b21ab17edc234a2f3fa7fb23d

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/12/binutils-multiple-crashes/
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