PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-11-30 21:29:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2017-17080
PublicDate: 2017-11-30 21:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17080
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
Description:
 elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
 distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes,
 which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32
 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object
 file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo,
 elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22421
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]


Patches_binutils:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=80a0437873045cc08753fcac4af154e2931a99fd
upstream_binutils: released (2.29.90.20180122-1)
precise/esm_binutils: ignored (end of ESM support, was needs-triage)
trusty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_binutils: needs-triage
xenial_binutils: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_binutils: released (2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
zesty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_binutils: not-affected (2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.1)
cosmic_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1.1)
disco_binutils: not-affected (2.32-7ubuntu4)
eoan_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
focal_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
groovy_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
hirsute_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
impish_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
jammy_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)
devel_binutils: not-affected (2.32-8ubuntu1)