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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-13033: ELSA-2018-3032: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-13033: ELSA-2018-3032: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/01/2018
Created
05/08/2019
Added
10/16/2024
Modified
10/17/2024

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

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