EUVD-2018-12580 · Published Dec 10, 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.
Technologies
Weaknesses
CVSS scores
- v3.05.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - v2.04.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
MITRE ATT&CK
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References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089
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