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[Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After reading through the "strings / libbfd crasher
" thread (part of which can be found here: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/23/4), a CVE was not assigned to this issue.

I don't see how it could be anything more than a simple crasher and I
don't believe it to be a real security concern. We will fix this in a
future Ubuntu release but won't likely fix it in stable releases unless
the impact is determined to be more severe.

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Title:
  SIGSEGV in elf.c

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  -=Binary=-
  size

  -=Package=-
  binutils 2.25-10ubuntu1

  -=Title=-
  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

  
  -=Input file=-
  root@exploitdev-wily:~/Desktop/Reported crashes/size# xxd size-SIGSEGV 
  00000000: 7f45 4c46 0101 0130 3030 3030 3030 3030  .ELF...000000000
  00000010: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00000020: 4000 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030 0000 3030  @...00000000..00
  00000030: 0000 0400 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  ....000000000000
  00000040: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00000050: 3030 3030 0700 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000....00000000
  00000060: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3000 0000 3030 3030  000000000...0000
  00000070: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00000080: 0000 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  ....000000000000
  00000090: 3000 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0...000000000000
  000000a0: 3030 3030 3030 3030 0000 0000 3030 3030  00000000....0000
  000000b0: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3000 0000 3030 3030  000000000...0000
  000000c0: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  000000d0: 0000 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  ....000000000000
  000000e0: 3000 0000 1100 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030  0.......00000000
  000000f0: 0002 0000 3019 0000 0000 0000 3030 3030  ....0.......0000
  00000100: 3030 3030 0400 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000....00000000
  00000110: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00000120: 0000 0000 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  ....000000000000
  00000130: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00000140: 3030 3030 3030 3030 0000 0000 3030 3030  00000000....0000
  00000150: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  ....
  ....
  ....
  00001b00: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3130 3030 3030 3030  0000000010000000
  00001b10: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030  0000000000000000
  00001b20: 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 3030 efbe adde  000000000000....


  -=happens here=-
  bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd=0x811a9f0, shindex=4) at elf.c:2030
  2030			  && (s = idx->shdr->bfd_section) != NULL

  
  -=stacktrace=-
  (gdb) backtrace
  #0  bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd=0x811a9f0, shindex=4) at elf.c:2030
  #1  0x08070b39 in bfd_elf32_object_p (abfd=0x811a9f0) at elfcode.h:800
  #2  0x08055742 in bfd_check_format_matches (abfd=0x811a9f0, format=bfd_object, matching=0xbffff338) at format.c:305
  #3  0x0804a8f0 in display_bfd (abfd=abfd@entry=0x811a9f0) at size.c:302
  #4  0x0804aaaf in display_file (filename=0xbffff5d2 "size-SIGSEGV") at size.c:398
  #5  0x08049fd4 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff434) at size.c:239

  
  -=registers=-
  (gdb) i r
  eax            0x64b	1611
  ecx            0x811d5a8	135386536
  edx            0xdeadbeef	-559038737        <===== CONTROL OVER EDX .. LAST 4 BYTES OF INPUT FILE
  ebx            0x811a9f0	135375344
  esp            0xbffff130	0xbffff130
  ebp            0x811b4c8	0x811b4c8
  esi            0x811cc48	135384136
  edi            0x811d5d8	135386584
  eip            0x807f268	0x807f268 <bfd_section_from_shdr+2920>
  eflags         0x10282	[ SF IF RF ]
  cs             0x73	115
  ss             0x7b	123
  ds             0x7b	123
  es             0x7b	123
  fs             0x0	0
  gs             0x33	51
  (gdb)

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