CVE-2018-7208
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-18 04:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:24
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103077Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22741Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103077Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22741Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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