CVE-2018-17360 (NVD)

2018-09-23

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

Products Binutils
Type Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
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=23685