CVE - CVE-2018-18606

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-18606	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 merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
References
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BID:105754 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105754 CONFIRM:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/ MISC:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806 MISC:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc 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
20181023	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 (20181023)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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