CVE-2017-15022 log

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Severity	Medium
Remote	Yes
Type	Denial of service
Description	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.

Group	Package	Affected	Fixed	Severity	Status	Ticket
AVG-435	binutils	2.29.1-3	2.30-1	High	Fixed

References
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-bfd_hash_hash-hash-c/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22201 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=11855d8a1f11b102a702ab76e95b22082cccf2f8

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-bfd_hash_hash-hash-c/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22201
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=11855d8a1f11b102a702ab76e95b22082cccf2f8