CVE-2018-6759

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6759
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6759.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6759
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
CLSA (3)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (3)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (3)
SUSE (5)
Published
2018-02-06T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-28T08:20:27Z
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

The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, has an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) 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
8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce
Last Affected
8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "2.30"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "2.30"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.30
Other
binutils-2_30

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6759.json"