CVE-2018-20002

Description

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

References

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

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3