Bug 1483601 (CVE-2017-12457) - CVE-2017-12457 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_make_section_with_flags function
Summary: CVE-2017-12457 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_make_section_with_fl...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12457
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1483603 1483604 1483605
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-21 13:10 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:21:38 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 13:10:58 UTC 
The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary
File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU
Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL
dereference via a crafted file.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21840

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8bdf0be19d2777565a8b1c88347f65d6a4b8c5fc
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-21 13:15:23 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483604]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1483603]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483605]
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