Bug 1435303 (CVE-2017-7227) - CVE-2017-7227 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in ld due to missing null termination
Summary: CVE-2017-7227 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in ld due to missing null ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7227
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: 2017-03-23 14:10 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:09:33 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 14:10:51 UTC 
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=406bd128dba2a59d0736839fc87a59bce319076c
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 14:14:58 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435308]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

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