CVE-2018-18606

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18606
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-18606.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-18606
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-10-23T17:29:00.517Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:24:01.698978Z
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 mergestrings 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 bfdaddmerge_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.

References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a17fcd19400181f4b8b45be7715337ed83d7a122
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1f1c02597cc199227226251a2ea51fe5f44b4d6d
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.31"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "8.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
binu_ss_19990502
binutils-2_31
gdb-4_18-branchpoint
gdb_5_2-branchpoint
gdb_5_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_0-branchpoint
gdb_6_1-branchpoint
gdb_6_2-branchpoint
gdb_6_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_4-branchpoint
gdb_6_5-branchpoint
gdb_6_6-branchpoint
gdb_6_7-branchpoint
gdb_6_8-branchpoint
gdb_7_0-branchpoint
gdb_7_1-branchpoint
gdb_7_2-branchpoint
gdb_7_3-branchpoint
gdb_7_4-branchpoint
gdb_7_5-branchpoint
gdb_7_6-branchpoint
readline_4_0
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4
users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4
gdb-7.*
gdb-7.10-branchpoint
gdb-7.11-branchpoint
gdb-7.12-branchpoint
gdb-7.7-branchpoint
gdb-7.8-branchpoint
gdb-7.9-branchpoint
gdb-8.*
gdb-8.0-branchpoint
gdb-8.1-branchpoint

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-18606.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]