CVE-2018-13033

Medium

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Binutils
PublishedJul 1, 2018
First seenJul 1, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu binutils2.30—
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation7.0—
redhat openshift_container_platform3.11—

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