CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6872
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-09
- 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-125
Description
The elf_parse_notes 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 (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.30
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103103 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22788 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef135d4314fd4c2d7da66b9d7b59af4a85b0f7e6 sourceware.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103103 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22788 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef135d4314fd4c2d7da66b9d7b59af4a85b0f7e6 sourceware.org