Bug 1483582 (CVE-2017-12450) - CVE-2017-12450 binutils: out of bounds heap write in alpha_vms_object_p function
Summary: CVE-2017-12450 binutils: out of bounds heap write in alpha_vms_object_p function
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-12450
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1483603 1483604 1483605
Blocks: 1483587
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Reported: 2017-08-21 12:43 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-22 12:28:29 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 12:43:58 UTC 
The alpha_vms_object_p function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File
Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils
2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds
heap write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted vms alpha
file.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21813

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ca4cf9b9c622a5695e01f7f5815a7382a31fcf51
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8a2df5e2df374289e00ecd8f099eb46d76ef982e
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 13:14:43 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483604]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1483603]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483605]
Comment 2 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2017-09-22 12:28:29 UTC 
Marked binutils in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and devtools 4, 6 and 7, as not affected.
Red Hat does not ship binutils compiled with the --enable-targets=all configuration. Therefore, Product Security Team was not able to reproduce the issues.
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