Bug 1524511 (CVE-2017-17125) - CVE-2017-17125 binutils: Buffer over-read in the _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string function
Summary: CVE-2017-17125 binutils: Buffer over-read in the _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17125
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: 2017-12-11 15:56 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:23 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:56:18 UTC
nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22443

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=160b1a618ad94988410dc81fce9189fcda5b7ff4

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:57:54 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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