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CVE-2018-17360 (GCVE-0-2018-17360)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-23 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:47
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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. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685 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
2018-09-23 00:00
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