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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-15939: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-15939: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/08/2018
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles NULL files in a .debug_line file table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15023.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

References

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