CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-7642
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-02
- 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
The swap_std_reloc_in function in aoutx.h 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 (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.30
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference 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
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22887 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=116acb2c268c89c89186673a7c92620d21825b25 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
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22887 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=116acb2c268c89c89186673a7c92620d21825b25 sourceware.org