Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075218
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed9 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6872  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.

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