CVE-2018-17359

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17359
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17359.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17359
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-09-23T18:29:00.440Z
Modified
2026-07-08T15:09:41.183065Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
0860693812fff944ab0602e72b762a4a2078da5b
Last affected
0860693812fff944ab0602e72b762a4a2078da5b
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.31.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.31.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.31.1
Other
binutils-2_31_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17359.json"