NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
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- published 27 Oct 2017
- disclosed 27 Oct 2017
Introduced: 27 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15939 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
binutils
to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15939
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2017-15023/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22205
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=a54018b72d75abf2e74bf36016702da06399c1d9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101613
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=a54018b72d75abf2e74bf36016702da06399c1d9