Bug 1250129 (CVE-2014-9939) - CVE-2014-9939 binutils: buffer overflow in ihex.c
Summary: CVE-2014-9939 binutils: buffer overflow in ihex.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2014-9939
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: 1250141
Blocks: 1250146
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-04 15:01 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:03 UTC (History)
27 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-05 14:46:02 UTC
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Upstream patch (2.54 KB, patch)
2015-08-04 15:07 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
Reproducer (20 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2015-08-04 15:10 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 15:01:01 UTC 
There was found a buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils 2.6 and lower in ihex.c.

Waiting for CVE assignment:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/265
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 15:07:18 UTC 
Created attachment 1059121 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 15:10:44 UTC 
Created attachment 1059123 [details]
Reproducer
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-08-04 15:12:42 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1250141]
Comment 4 Nick Clifton 2015-08-04 16:45:24 UTC 
This bug is now fixed in: binutils-2.25.1-3.fc24

I am not sure if the problem is important enough to warrant backporting the patch to earlier versions of Fedora however.
Comment 5 Jeff Law 2015-08-04 16:46:58 UTC 
I wouldn't think that ihex would be important enough to warrant backporting to earlier versions of fedora.
Comment 6 Stefan Cornelius 2015-08-05 13:53:17 UTC 
For RHEL5/6/7/Fedora, the stack-based buffer overflow is detected and mitigated by fortify source. Thus, the worst outcome should be a mere crash/application abort. It should not be possible to exploit this flaw to gain code execution.

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of binutils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 9 Yaakov Selkowitz 2015-08-26 02:05:39 UTC 
fedora-all/arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs=affected appears to be missing from the Whiteboard.  This has been fixed in cross-binutils but not yet in the other *-binutils packages.
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