Bug 1483602 – CVE-2017-12458 binutils: out of bounds heap read in nlm_swap_auxiliary_headers_in function

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Bug 1483602 - (CVE-2017-12458) CVE-2017-12458 binutils: out of bounds heap read in nlm_swap_auxiliary_headers_in function

Summary:	CVE-2017-12458 binutils: out of bounds heap read in nlm_swap_auxiliary_header...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-12458

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1483603 1483604 1483605
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Reported:	2017-08-21 09:11 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-08-21 09:15 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 09:11:18 EDT

The nlm_swap_auxiliary_headers_in function in bfd/nlmcode.h 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 read via a crafted nlm 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 09:15:03 EDT

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]

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