CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20651

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-01-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-01-01
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-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in elf_link_add_object_symbols in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. This occurs for a crafted ET_DYN with no program headers. A specially crafted ELF file allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.31.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References