CVE-2018-18309
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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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affected products (8)
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references (32)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.htmlcnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0930cb3021b8078b34cf216e79eb8608d017864fcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/libbfd-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-read-reloc-30621cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3833/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3954/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3969/cnnvd
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