Bug 1500341 (CVE-2017-14940) - CVE-2017-14940 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the scan_unit_for_symbols
Summary: CVE-2017-14940 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the scan_unit_for_symbols
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14940
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 12:21 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:28:20 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 12:21:52 UTC 
scan_unit_for_symbols 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0d76029f92182c3682d8be2c833d45bc9a2068fe
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 12:22:44 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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