CVE-2018-18606
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 23, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 23, 2018
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 105754vdb-entry
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2415vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2432vendor-advisory
- USN-4336-1vendor-advisory
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