CVE-2018-17359

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    CVE-2018-17359

    Published: 23 Sept 2018Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0860693812fff944ab0602e72b762a4a2078da5b
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.31.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High