CVE-2018-17359 (NVD)

2018-09-23

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Products Binutils
Type Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686