CVE-2018-20002
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-10 02:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:51
Severity ?
Summary
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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