CVE-2017-12457

Priority
Description
The bfd_make_section_with_flags function in section.c in the Binary File
Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29
and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a NULL dereference via a
crafted file.
References
Notes
 sbeattie> same commit as CVE-2017-12455
Package
Upstream:released (2.29.1)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):needed
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr):needed
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):needed
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):not-affected (2.29.1-1ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish):not-affected (2.29.1-1ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo):not-affected (2.29.1-1ubuntu1)
Patches:
Other:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=8bdf0be19d2777565a8b1c88347f65d6a4b8c5fc
Other:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=796337aa8ba0aa0397c07c264f82fe8eb9fd46e0
More Information

Updated: 2019-01-14 21:23:26 UTC (commit 51f9b73af244ba86b9321e46e526586c25a8e060)