Bug 1518596 (CVE-2017-16832) - CVE-2017-16832 binutils: Segmentation fault in the pe_bfd_read_buildid function
Summary: CVE-2017-16832 binutils: Segmentation fault in the pe_bfd_read_buildid function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-16832
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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Depends On: 1499310 1499311
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-29 09:37 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:32:20 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-29 09:37:18 UTC 
The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in peicode.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate size and offset values in the data dictionary, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22373

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0bb6961f18b8e832d88b490d421ca56cea16c45b
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-29 09:40:23 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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