CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-19931

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-12-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils (<= 2.31) • netapp vasa provider (>= 7.2) • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References