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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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html | |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105754 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc | |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-10-23T17:00:00
Updated: 2020-04-29T02:06:23
Reserved: 2018-10-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-18606
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-10-23T17:29:00.517
Modified: 2023-11-07T02:55:20.760
Link: CVE-2018-18606
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