CVE-2018-17358

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/25

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3