Bug 1500331 (CVE-2017-14933) - CVE-2017-14933 binutils: Infinite loop in read_formatted_entries
Summary: CVE-2017-14933 binutils: Infinite loop in read_formatted_entries
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14933
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: 1499310 1499311
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 11:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:28:14 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:58:21 UTC 
read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22210

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=30d0157a2ad64e64e5ff9fcc0dbe78a3e682f573
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=33e0a9a056bd23e923b929a4f2ab049ade0b1c32
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 12:00:36 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499311]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1499310]
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