Bug 672904 (CVE-2018-20002)

Summary:	<sys-devel/binutils-2.31.1-r5: memory leak in _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	D'juan McDonald (domhnall) <flopwiki>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
Whiteboard:	A3 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2018-12-10 22:08:46 UTC

A memory leak issue was discovered in bfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. 
In _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c, the is a heap allocation. But this heap allocation didn't deallocate in the end.

PR: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9


@maintainer(s): Fixed on master, Milestone is 2.32 release.


Gentoo Security Padawan
(domhnall)

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2019-03-24 21:14:02 UTC

will be in 2.31.1 patchlevel 6

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2019-06-06 14:29:58 UTC

All affected versions are gone or masked. @security please proceed.

Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2019-08-03 11:23:37 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201908-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).