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CVE-2018-18606
Published: Oct 23, 2018
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
105754
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
x_refsource_MISC
openSUSE-SU-2019:2415
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2019:2432
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
USN-4336-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
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