CVE-2017-15020 — Out-of-bounds Read in Binutils

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 65.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateMay 13

Description

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.29.90.20180122-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.29

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-vhq5-x52q-wx75: dwarf1↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-15020: dwarf1↗2017-10-05
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CVEList
CVE-2017-15020: dwarf1↗2017-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Red Hat
binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_die↗2017-09-25
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Debian
CVE-2017-15020: binutils - dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distribute...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15020 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_die↗2017-10-10
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14529 CVE-2017-14729 CVE-2017-14745 CVE-2017-14930 CVE-2017-14932 CVE-2017-14933 CVE-2017-14934 CVE-2017-14938 CVE-2017-14939 CVE-2017-14940 CVE-2017-14974 CVE-2017-15020 CVE-2017-15021 CVE-2↗2017-10-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14529 CVE-2017-14729 CVE-2017-14745 CVE-2017-14930 CVE-2017-14932 CVE-2017-14933 CVE-2017-14934 CVE-2017-14938 CVE-2017-14939 CVE-2017-14940 CVE-2017-14974 CVE-2017-15020 CVE-2017-15021 CVE-2↗2017-10-06
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