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CVE-2018-17360

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

Published

2018-09-23T18:29:00.547

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:54:15.700

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-125

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	binutils	2.31.1	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html ([email protected])
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)