Medium severity · published Sep 23, 2018
CVE-2018-17359
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_zalloc in opncls.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 70% 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-2018-17359
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17359
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
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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