SUSE: CVE-2017-15996: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
Description
elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-binutils
- suse-upgrade-binutils-devel
- suse-upgrade-binutils-devel-32bit
- suse-upgrade-binutils-gold
- suse-upgrade-cross-aarch64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-arm-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-avr-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-epiphany-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-hppa-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-hppa64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-i386-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-ia64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-m68k-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-mips-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-ppc-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-ppc64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-ppc64le-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-riscv64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-rx-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-s390-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-s390x-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-sparc-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-sparc64-binutils
- suse-upgrade-cross-spu-binutils
- suse-upgrade-libctf-nobfd0
- suse-upgrade-libctf0
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