cve-2018-6759
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:10
Severity ?
Summary
The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, has an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) 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.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103030Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22794Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103030Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22794Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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