CVE-2018-18606

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 Binut...

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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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

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Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606 binutils Fixed in: 2.32.51.20190707-1

References

advisory securityfocus.com
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report sourceware.org
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