[ GLSA 200506-01 ] Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-01
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow
      Date: June 01, 2005
      Bugs: #91398, #91817
        ID: 200506-01

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Synopsis
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Various utilities from the GNU Binutils and elfutils packages are
vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow, potentially resulting in
the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and
analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File
Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Elfutils provides a
library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects.

Affected packages
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     Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
  1 dev-libs/elfutils < 0.108 >= 0.108
  2 sys-devel/binutils < 2.16-r1 *>= 2.14.90.0.8-r3
                                                  *>= 2.15.90.0.1.1-r5
                                                    *>= 2.15.90.0.3-r5
                                                    *>= 2.15.91.0.2-r2
                                                   *>= 2.15.92.0.2-r10
>= 2.16-r1
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Tavis Ormandy and Ned Ludd of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team
discovered an integer overflow in the BFD library and elfutils,
resulting in a heap based buffer overflow.

Impact
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Successful exploitation would require a user to access a specially
crafted binary file, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All GNU Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose sys-devel/binutils

All elfutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/elfutils-0.108"

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-01.xml

Concerns?
=========

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security_at_gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
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