CVE-2018-17358

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31

published September 23, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01326 · 70.7th percentile
Published
2018-09-23T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 SEP 18:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31
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