CVE-2017-15023 log

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Severity	Medium
Remote	Yes
Type	Denial of service
Description	read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, 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.

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-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf