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CVE-2018-17360
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-23T18:29:00.547 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:41.323

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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