CVE-2018-18309

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

published October 15, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.6
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 address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01820 · 78.6th percentile
Published
2018-10-15T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 02:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31
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