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SUSE: CVE-2018-18606: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-18606: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/23/2018
Created
10/17/2019
Added
10/15/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-binutils-devel
  • suse-upgrade-binutils-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-binutils-gold
  • suse-upgrade-cross-aarch64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-arm-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-avr-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-epiphany-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-hppa-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-hppa64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-i386-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-ia64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-m68k-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-mips-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-ppc-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-ppc64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-ppc64le-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-riscv64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-rx-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-s390-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-s390x-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-sparc-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-sparc64-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-cross-spu-binutils
  • suse-upgrade-libctf-nobfd0
  • suse-upgrade-libctf0

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:2650-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2779-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2780-1
  • USN-4336-1
  • USN-4336-2
  • CVE-2018-18606

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