The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section. Upstream issue: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22506 Upstream patches: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b23dc97fe237a1d9e850d7cbeee066183a00630b
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]