Bug 1440832 (CVE-2017-7303) - CVE-2017-7303 binutils: Out-of-bounds read in find_link function
Summary: CVE-2017-7303 binutils: Out-of-bounds read in find_link function
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7303
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1435307 1435308 1435309
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-10 14:37 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2022-03-13 14:15 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-05-10 08:50:00 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:37:48 UTC 
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing a check (in the find_link function) for null headers before attempting to match them. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash. 

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20922
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:57:21 UTC 
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.