CVE-2018-6872

The elfparsenotes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.

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

{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.30"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.30"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.30

Other

binutils-2_30

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6872.json"