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CVE-2018-17358
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-23T18:29:00.283 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:41.017

Summary

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_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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