CVE-2017-15996 log

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Severity	High
Remote	No
Type	Arbitrary code execution
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.

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

References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438b