CVE - CVE-2018-18309

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-18309	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.
References
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BID:105692 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105692 MISC:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23770 MISC:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0930cb3021b8078b34cf216e79eb8608d017864f SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:2415 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:2432 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html UBUNTU:USN-4336-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20181014	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20181014)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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