Bug 1500375 (CVE-2017-15025) - CVE-2017-15025 binutils: Divide-by-zero in decode_line_info
Summary: CVE-2017-15025 binutils: Divide-by-zero in decode_line_info
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-15025
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1499310 1499311
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 13:11 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:28:38 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:11:39 UTC 
decode_line_info in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22186

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d8010d3e75ec7194a4703774090b27486b742d48
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:16:22 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499311]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1499310]
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