Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-17359
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 31.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/