CVE-2017-15020
Published: 05 October 2017
dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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binutils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(2.29.90.20180122-1)
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Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
|
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
(2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.1)
|
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Needed
|
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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needs triage
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Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5 |