CVE-2018-18605
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.69%Published: 10/23/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18605
Description
A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the function sec_merge_hash_lookup in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, because _bfd_add_merge_section mishandles section merges when size is not a multiple of entsize. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.32.51.20190707-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |