Bug 1632921 (CVE-2018-17360) - CVE-2018-17360 binutils: heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c
Summary: CVE-2018-17360 binutils: heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-17360
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: 1632923 1632924 1632925 1632926 1632927
Blocks: 1632928
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Reported: 2018-09-25 20:14 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2020-03-27 18:38 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: binutils 2.32
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Last Closed: 2020-03-27 18:38:00 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-09-25 20:14:09 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.


References:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685

Upstream Patch:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=cf93e9c2cf8f8b2566f8fc86e961592b51b5980d
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-09-25 20:15:12 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632924]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1632923]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632927]
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