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CVE-2018-18309
medium
Description
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.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105692
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html