Bug 1635082 – CVE-2018-17794 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in libiberty/cplus-dem.c:work_stuff_copy_to_from() via crafted input

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Bug 1635082 - (CVE-2018-17794) CVE-2018-17794 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in libiberty/cplus-dem.c:work_stuff_copy_to_from() via crafted input

Summary:	CVE-2018-17794 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in libiberty/cplus-dem.c:wo...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-17794

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:	1635083 1635086 1635084 1635085 1635087
Blocks:	1635088
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Reported:	2018-10-02 00:42 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-10-24 20:44 EDT (History)
CC List:	18 users (show)

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-10-02 00:42:48 EDT

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.


Upstream Bug:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-10-02 00:43:53 EDT

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1635083]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1635085]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1635084]

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