CVE-2018-13033 | BDVDB-2026-103201 Detail

Description#

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-07-01Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.