CVE-2018-8945

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    CVE-2018-8945

    Published: 22 Mar 2018Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

    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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.30

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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