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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:47:33 +0000
From: "Agostino Sarubbo" <ago@...too.org>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: binutils: two NULL pointer dereference in elflink.c

Description:
binutils are a collection of binary tools necessary to build programs.

An updated clang version were able to discover two null pointer dereference in the following simple way:

# echo "int main () { return 0; }" > test.c
# cc test.c -o test
/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.28/work/binutils-2.28/bfd/elflink.c:124:12: runtime error: member access within null pointer of type 'struct elf_link_hash_entry'                            

/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.28/work/binutils-2.28/bfd/elflink.c:11979:58: runtime error: member access within null pointer of type 'elf_section_list' (aka 'struct elf_section_list')  
Affected version:
2.28

Fixed version:
N/A

Commit fix:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ad32986fdf9da1c8748e47b8b45100398223dba8

Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE:
CVE-2017-7614

Timeline:
2017-04-01: bug discovered and reported to upstream
2017-04-04: upstream released a patch
2017-04-05: blog post about the issue
2017-04-09: CVE assigned

Note:
This bug was found with clang’s Undefined Behavior Sanitizer.

Permalink:
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/

--
Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo Linux Developer


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