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Message-ID: <54598E88.5060700@mccme.ru>
Date: 2014年11月05日 05:42:16 +0300
From: Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: strings / libbfd crasher
On 2014年11月03日 01:43, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17533
>
> $ printf '!<arch>\n//%48d%8s`\n' -2 '' > test.a
> $ objdump -x test.a
> Segmentation fault
>
> At least 2.22, 2.24 and head are affected. ar, size, strip etc. are also
> affected.
>
> valgrind on head shows:
>
> ==14181== Invalid write of size 8
> ==14181== at 0x4C2E467: memset (vg_replace_strmem.c:1094)
> ==14181== by 0x448AD2: bfd_zalloc (opncls.c:1011)
> ==14181== by 0x43F08A: _bfd_slurp_extended_name_table (archive.c:1298)
> ==14181== by 0x43E89B: bfd_generic_archive_p (archive.c:831)
> ==14181== by 0x4466A6: bfd_check_format_matches (format.c:305)
> ==14181== by 0x407DCD: display_any_bfd (objdump.c:3356)
> ==14181== by 0x409F52: display_file (objdump.c:3410)
> ==14181== by 0x4048F9: main (objdump.c:3692)
> ==14181== Address 0x55fb9a0 is 0 bytes after a block of size 4,064 alloc'd
> ==14181== at 0x4C27C20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:296)
> ==14181== by 0x4D51DC: objalloc_create (objalloc.c:95)
> ==14181== by 0x448177: _bfd_new_bfd (opncls.c:73)
> ==14181== by 0x448307: bfd_fopen (opncls.c:197)
> ==14181== by 0x409F40: display_file (objdump.c:3403)
> ==14181== by 0x4048F9: main (objdump.c:3692)
>
> This is "Invalid write", hence potentially exploitable? Is further
> analysis required before deciding if this is a security issue? Or, more
> strictly, is further analysis required before deciding if this issue is
> CVE worthy?
This is fixed now:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=bb0d867169d7e9743d229804106a8fbcab7f3b3f
-- 
Alexander Cherepanov

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