CVE-2018-18606
Published: 23 October 2018
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.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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binutils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needs triage
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Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc |
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