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CVE-2018-20002
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-10T02:29:00.390 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:52:08.843

Summary

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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