binutils: CVE-2017-7299

Source: git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
MR: 74257
Type: Security Fix
Disposition: Backport from 'embedded-binutils-master'
ChangeID: b55df05e3d3fd21bd30edaea124135892747b1ee
Description:

Linking non-ELF file broken by PR20908 fix

PR ld/20968
PR ld/20908
   * elflink.c (bfd_elf_final_link): Revert 2016-12-02 change.  Move
     reloc counting code later after ELF flavour test.

PR lf/20908
   * elflink.c (bfd_elf_final_link): Check for ELF flavour binaries
     when following indirect links.

Affects: <= 2.28
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
(From OE-Core rev: 020863d45d39a336723300138777583afb0b12c7)

Signed-off-by: Thiruvadi Rajaraman <trajaraman@mvista.com>
Reviewed-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.27.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.27.inc
index 35e26fc0dd..1e55be69f7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.27.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.27.inc
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ SRC_URI = "\
      file://CVE-2017-8394_1.patch \
      file://CVE-2017-8394.patch \
      file://CVE-2017-8398.patch \
+     file://CVE-2017-7299_1.patch \
+     file://CVE-2017-7299_2.patch \
 "
 S  = "${WORKDIR}/git"