Bug 1440828 (CVE-2017-7300) - CVE-2017-7300 binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in aout_link_add_symbols function
Summary: CVE-2017-7300 binutils: Heap-buffer overflow in aout_link_add_symbols function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7300
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: 2017-04-10 14:32 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-10 08:50:23 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:32:27 UTC 
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) has an aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash. 

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20909
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:56:55 UTC 
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]
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