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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-17360: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-17360: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2018
Created
07/23/2019
Added
07/23/2019
Modified
07/23/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

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