[Secure-testing-team] Bug#866068: radare2: CVE-2017-9949

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: radare2
Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-5
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security patch
Forwarded: https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/7683

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for radare2.

CVE-2017-9949[0]:
| The grub_memmove function in shlr/grub/kern/misc.c in radare2 1.5.0
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based
| buffer underflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified
| other impact via a crafted binary file, possibly related to a buffer
| underflow in fs/ext2.c in GNU GRUB 2.02.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9949
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9949
[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/7683
[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/796dd28aaa6b9fa76d99c42c4d5ff8b257cc2191

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore