CVE-2017-15022
Published: 05 October 2017
dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
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=11855d8a1f11b102a702ab76e95b22082cccf2f8 |
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