Bug 1449548 (CVE-2017-8395) - CVE-2017-8395 binutils: Out-of-bounds write in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function
Summary: CVE-2017-8395 binutils: Out-of-bounds write in the _bfd_generic_get_section_c...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-8395
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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Reported: 2017-05-10 09:00 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-10 09:09:13 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 09:00:32 UTC 
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21431
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