Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils-devel package, versions <0:2.27-34.base.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.35% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILSDEVEL-2106582
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Jul 2018

Introduced: 1 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 binutils-devel to version 0:2.27-34.base.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.