CVE-2018-20002

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.1.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:netapp:vasa_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "netapp:vasa_provider"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Events

Introduced

af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813

Last Affected

af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813

Database specific

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{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.31"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.31"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.31

Other

binutils-2_31

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20002.json"