Bug 1483583 (CVE-2017-12459) - CVE-2017-12459 binutils: out of bounds heap write in bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_strtab function
Summary: CVE-2017-12459 binutils: out of bounds heap write in bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_s...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-12459
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 12:44 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-22 12:53:42 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 12:44:15 UTC 
The bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_strtab function in bfd/mach-o.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
mach-o file.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21840

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8bdf0be19d2777565a8b1c88347f65d6a4b8c5fc
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 13:14:23 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 12:53:42 UTC 
The issues did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and devtools 4, 6 and 7.
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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