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Bug 632100 (CVE-2017-14745) - <sys-devel/binutils-2.29.1 : denial of service in the *_get_synthetic_symtab functions
Summary: <sys-devel/binutils-2.29.1 : denial of service in the *_get_synthetic_symtab ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-14745
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: A3 [glsa cve]
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Reported: 2017-09-26 20:10 UTC by Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak)
Modified: 2018-01-07 23:11 UTC (History)
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Description Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak) 2017-09-26 20:10:18 UTC 
CVE-2017-14745 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14745):

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c. 

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22148
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-10-11 20:15:14 UTC 
Patch added to gentoo/binutils-2.29.1 branch
Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-12-27 22:52:48 UTC 
All affected versions are masked. No further cleanup (toolchain package). 

Nothing to do for toolchain here anymore. Please proceed.
Comment 3 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2018-01-05 06:46:58 UTC 
Added to existing GLSA request.


Gentoo Security Padawan
(Jmbailey/mbailey_j)
Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2018-01-07 23:11:51 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).