CVE-2018-20651
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 1, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 1, 2019
Description
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in elf_link_add_object_symbols in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. This occurs for a crafted ET_DYN with no program headers. A specially crafted ELF file 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
- 106440vdb-entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24041
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=54025d5812ff100f5f0654eb7e1ffd50f2e37f5f
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38336243
- GLSA-201908-01vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2415vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2432vendor-advisory
- USN-4336-1vendor-advisory
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