[Secure-testing-team] Bug#882134: radare2: CVE-2017-16805

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: radare2
Version: 2.0.0+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8813

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for radare2.

CVE-2017-16805[0]:
| In radare2 2.0.1, libr/bin/dwarf.c allows remote attackers to cause a
| denial of service (invalid read and application crash) via a crafted
| ELF file, related to r_bin_dwarf_parse_comp_unit in dwarf.c and
| sdb_set_internal in shlr/sdb/src/sdb.c.

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-2017-16805
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16805
[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8813
[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/2ca9ab45891b6ae8e32b6c28c81eebca059cbe5d

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore