CVE-2018-8945

medium

Description

The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

References

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327

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

Published: 2018-03-22

Updated: 2019-10-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H