Bug 1664712 (CVE-2018-20671) - CVE-2018-20671 binutils: Integer overflow in load_specific_debug_section function
Summary: CVE-2018-20671 binutils: Integer overflow in load_specific_debug_section func...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-20671
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1664713 1664714 1664715 1666219 1666220
Blocks: 1664716
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Reported: 2019-01-09 13:46 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2023-10-30 09:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 03:21:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2019-01-09 13:46:27 UTC 
An integer overflow was found in load_specific_debug_section function.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24005

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=11fa9f134fd658075c6f74499c780df045d9e9ca
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2019-01-09 13:48:21 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1664713]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1664715]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1664714]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-01-15 08:58:31 UTC 
When binutils is compiled in 32bit mode, an integer overflow is possible in load_specific_debug_section function() in objdump.c which may lead to an heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_get_full_section_contents().
Comment 6 Riccardo Schirone 2019-01-23 08:54:19 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of binutils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code. Moreover the flaw can only be triggered on 32bit versions of the component.
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