Bug 1435632 (CVE-2017-7209) - CVE-2017-7209 binutils: Null pointer dereference in dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf
Summary: CVE-2017-7209 binutils: Null pointer dereference in dump_section_as_bytes fun...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7209
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: 1435307 1435308 1435309
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-24 12:24 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2020-04-15 15:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:09:35 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 12:24:33 UTC 
The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21135

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f055032e4e922f1e1a5e11026c7c2669fa2a7d19
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 12:57:55 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-03-24 12:58:04 UTC 
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435307]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]
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