In GNU Binutils through version 2.30, the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), an index is not properly validated, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crash (segmentation fault) when parsing a file with a crafted COFF file. Upstream Issue: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22741 Upstream Patch: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=eb77f6a4621795367a39cdd30957903af9dbb815
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546624] Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1546623]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3032 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032