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.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2018-10042 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4336-1 | GNU binutils vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4336-2 | GNU binutils vulnerabilities |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T11:08:21.339Z
Reserved: 2018-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-18309
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-10-15T02:29:00.767
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:55:40.440
Link: CVE-2018-18309
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Weaknesses
EUVD
Ubuntu USN