Fixed
Created: Nov 9, 2017
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jun 7, 2018
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0.0.37
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Toolchain
elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header, related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.
See: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15996
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