Bug 1573365 – CVE-2018-10373 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf2.c:concat_filename() allows for denial of service via crafted file

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Bug 1573365 - (CVE-2018-10373) CVE-2018-10373 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf2.c:concat_filename() allows for denial of service via crafted file

Summary:	CVE-2018-10373 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf2.c:concat_filename...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-10373

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

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Depends On:	1573367 1573368 1573366 1573369 1579064 1579065
Blocks:	1573371
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Reported:	2018-04-30 22:20 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 2018-04-30 22:20:53 EDT

GNU Binutils through version 2.30 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in dwarf2.c:concat_filename(). An attacker could exploit this to crash the nm-new application  by providing a binary file.


Upstream Issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23065


Upstream Patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6327533b1fd29fa86f6bf34e61c332c010e3c689

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-04-30 22:21:29 EDT

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1573368]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1573366]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1573369]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 03:24:15 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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