CVE-2018-20002
Published: 10 December 2018
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.
Priority
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 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
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 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Needed
|
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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=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9 |