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CVE-2018-18309
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-15T02:29:00.767 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:46:57.790

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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