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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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Candidate: CVE-2017-15020
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PublicDate: 2017-10-04
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15020
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 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/
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 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202
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 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5
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Description:
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 dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
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 distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote
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 attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have
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 unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and
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 parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer
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 over-read.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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Bugs:
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Priority: medium
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Discovered-by:
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Assigned-to:
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Patches_binutils:
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upstream_binutils: needs-triage
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precise/esm_binutils: needs-triage
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trusty_binutils: needs-triage
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vivid/ubuntu-core_binutils: DNE
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xenial_binutils: needs-triage
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zesty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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artful_binutils: needs-triage
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bionic_binutils: needs-triage
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devel_binutils: needs-triage