medium5.5
CVE-2018-18606
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
Impact
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Binutils | Version 2.31 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 |
| Netapp | Data Ontap | All versions |
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/105754
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc
- 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/105754
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/