CVE-2018-17360

MEDIUM5.5

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2

Published Sep 23, 2018

Modified 1 years ago

Details

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

References

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

WEB

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685

ADVISORY

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17360

CVSS Analysis