CVE-2017-15022

Name	CVE-2017-15022
Description	dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	buster	2.31.1-16	fixed
	bullseye	2.35.2-2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.40-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	experimental	2.29.51.20171128-1
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.29.90.20180122-1	low

Notes

[stretch] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-bfd_hash_hash-hash-c/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22201
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=11855d8a1f11b102a702ab76e95b22082cccf2f8