medium5.5
CVE-2018-18309
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Binutils | Version 2.31 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105692
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0930cb3021b8078b34cf216e79eb8608d017864f
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105692
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0930cb3021b8078b34cf216e79eb8608d017864f
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/