Bug 1524505 (CVE-2017-17122) - CVE-2017-17122 binutils: Excessive memory allocation in the dump_relocs_in_section function
Summary: CVE-2017-17122 binutils: Excessive memory allocation in the dump_relocs_in_se...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17122
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: 2017-12-11 15:52 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:18 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:52:48 UTC 
The dump_relocs_in_section function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not check for reloc count integer overflows, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22508

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d785b7d4b877ed465d04072e17ca19d0f47d840f
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:57:19 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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