readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read while processing corrupt RL78 binaries. The vulnerability can trigger program crashes. It may lead to an information leak as well. Upstream bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21156 Upstream fixes: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b814a36d3440de95f2ac6eaa4fc7935c322ea456 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=43a444f9c5bfd44b4304eafd78338e21d54bea14
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]