cve-2018-17358
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-23 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:47
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/25
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/25
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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