NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1939370
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 21 Oct 2018
Introduced: 21 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18606 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:8
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Centos:8
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.