CVE-2018-7208 (GCVE-0-2018-7208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-18 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:24
VLAI
Summary
In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22741 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103077 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2018-02-17 00:00
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