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CVE-2018-7570
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-28T21:29:00.400 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:03:23.673

Summary

The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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