Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils-debuginfo package, versions <0:2.29.1-27.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.06% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-BINUTILSDEBUGINFO-1667904
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed1 Jul 2018

Introduced: 1 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 binutils-debuginfo to version 0:2.29.1-27.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1138.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-debuginfo package and not the binutils-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.