Bug 1560827 – CVE-2018-8945 binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted executable

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Bug 1560827 - (CVE-2018-8945) CVE-2018-8945 binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted executable

Summary:	CVE-2018-8945 binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted e...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-8945

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1560829 1560828 1560830 1560831 1579801
Blocks:	1553120
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Reported:	2018-03-27 00:38 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-10-30 03:24 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3032	None	None	None	2018-10-30 03:24 EDT

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-03-27 00:38:50 EDT

binutils through version 2.30 has a vulnerability in the elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() functionof the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd). An attacker could exploit this with a crafted executable file to cause a crash.


Upstream Bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809


Upstream Patch:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=10814&action=diff

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-03-27 00:39:39 EDT

Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1560831]


Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1560828]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1560830]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 03:23:58 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3032 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032

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