CVE-2018-18309 (GCVE-0-2018-18309)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-15 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08
VLAI
EPSS
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Summary
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105692 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2018-10-14 00:00
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