Bug 1524510 (CVE-2017-17124) - CVE-2017-17124 binutils: Heap buffer overflow in the _bfd_coff_read_string_table function
Summary: CVE-2017-17124 binutils: Heap buffer overflow in the _bfd_coff_read_string_ta...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17124
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 15:55 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:21 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:55:08 UTC 
The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 15:58:10 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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