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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-13033: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-13033: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/01/2018
Created
08/06/2019
Added
08/06/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

References

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