Bug 1500372 (CVE-2017-15020) - CVE-2017-15020 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_die
Summary: CVE-2017-15020 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_die
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-15020
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: 1499310 1499311
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 13:09 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2026-03-02 18:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:28:35 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:09:32 UTC 
dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 13:17:30 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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