Bug 2186584 - CVE-2023-1972 binutils: Illegal memory access when accessing a zer0-lengthverdef table [fedora-36]
Summary: CVE-2023-1972 binutils: Illegal memory access when accessing a zer0-lengthver...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: binutils
Version: 36
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nick Clifton
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2023-1972
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-04-13 18:26 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2023-04-17 15:24 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2023-04-17 15:24:47 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2023-04-13 18:26:19 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2023-04-13 18:26:22 UTC
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=low

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2185646,2186584

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Nick Clifton 2023-04-17 15:24:47 UTC
Closing because this is a low severity CVE that is triggered by a corrupt input file.  It cannot trigger a denial of service or privilege escalation.


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