Medium severity · published Sep 23, 2018
CVE-2018-17358
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31
5.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
2.31.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17358
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17358
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
seclists.org
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/25
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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