CVE-2018-7570
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy.
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affected products (5)
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references (19)
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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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22881cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=01f7e10cf2dcf403462b2feed06c43135651556dcnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3954/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3969/cnnvd
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20192779-1.htmlcnnvd
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