NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29.1-2
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- published2 Oct 2017
- disclosed2 Oct 2017
Introduced: 2 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-14974 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.29.1-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14974
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf