[Secure-testing-team] Bug#879119: radare2: CVE-2017-15385

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: radare2
Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8685

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for radare2.

CVE-2017-15385[0]:
| The store_versioninfo_gnu_verdef function in libr/bin/format/elf/elf.c
| in radare2 2.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (r_read_le16 invalid write and application crash) or possibly have
| unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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-2017-15385
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15385
[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8685
[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/21a6f570ba33fa9f52f1bba87f07acc4e8c178f4

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore