Bug 633988 (CVE-2017-15225)

Summary:	<sys-devel/binutils-2.29.1-r1 : denial of service via a crafted ELF file in _bfd_dwarf2_cleanup_debug_info in dwarf2.c
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak) <alwag>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	A3 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak) 2017-10-10 23:28:30 UTC

CVE-2017-15225 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15225):

_bfd_dwarf2_cleanup_debug_info in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted ELF file. 

References:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22212
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b55ec8b676ed05d93ee49d6c79ae0403616c4fb0

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-10-11 21:04:58 UTC

Patch added to gentoo/binutils-2.29.1 branch

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-10-13 18:45:44 UTC

Fixed in 2.29.1-r1

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-12-27 22:54:22 UTC

All affected versions are masked. No further cleanup (toolchain package). 

Nothing to do for toolchain here anymore. Please proceed.

Comment 4 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2018-01-05 06:42:21 UTC

Added to existing GLSA request.


Gentoo Security Padawan
(Jmbailey/mbailey_j)

Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-01-07 23:12:23 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201801-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).