Bug 1771668 (CVE-2019-17451) - CVE-2019-17451 binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c
Summary: CVE-2019-17451 binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_fi...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-17451
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1771669 1771670 1771672 1771673 1779244 1779245 1779253 1779254 1779255
Blocks: 1771671
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Reported: 2019-11-12 18:48 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-04-28 16:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:34:33 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1797 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:54:04 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-12 18:48:12 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

Reference:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070

Upstream commit:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-12 18:48:41 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1771669]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1771673]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1771672]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1771670]
Comment 7 Marco Benatto 2019-12-03 19:45:00 UTC 
There's an issue on libbfd from binutils package while processing BFD data. When reading BFD sections from an ELF binary to extract debug information, _bfd_dwarf2_slurp_debug_info() doesn't properly validate section's size leading to a integer overflow. An attacker can leverage that by crafting a ELF file which may trigger the bug further causing heap data corruption and DoS.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:54:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1797 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1797
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:34:33 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-17451
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