A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the function sec_merge_hash_lookup in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, because _bfd_add_merge_section mishandles section merges when size is not a multiple of entsize. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.32.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu12.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu12.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu12.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu12.24-1ubuntu12.24-1ubuntu22.24-2ubuntu12.24-2ubuntu22.24-2ubuntu32.24-4ubuntu1+15 more2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1Exploitability
AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:RScope
S:UImpact
C:NI:NA:HCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H