Bug 1440837 (CVE-2017-7614) - CVE-2017-7614 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function
Summary: CVE-2017-7614 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7614
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 14:46 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-05-14 15:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-10 08:49:46 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:46:21 UTC
elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program. 

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21342

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ad32986fdf9da1c8748e47b8b45100398223dba8

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-10 14:57:37 UTC
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1435309]


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