CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20002

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-12-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-772

Description

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.31 • netapp vasa provider (>= 7.2) • f5 traffix signaling delivery controller (>= 5.0.0 <= 5.1.0) • f5 traffix signaling delivery controller 4.4.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness

References