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Bug 159894

Summary:	CAN-2005-1704 Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=low,public=20050525,reported=20050504,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-673	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	156322

Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:21:07 UTC

Integer overflow in the BFD library for binutils allows attackers to
execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that specifies a large number
of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-08 21:21:44 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 8 Josh Bressers 2005-07-29 20:04:41 UTC

Adding this bug to the RHEL4 U2 Canfix list, it's fixed in the U2 package.

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 12:44:39 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-673.html