High severity · published Dec 7, 2018
CVE-2018-19931
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31
7.8
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
through 2.31 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
18.04 · source: NVD
VP
Vasa Provider · Netapp
7.2 and later · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19931
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19931
Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
Patch
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
Issue Tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942
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