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CVE-2018-8945
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-22T21:29:00.697 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:05:42.340

Summary

The bfd_section_from_shdr 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 (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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References

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