Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)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-10075299
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed22 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8945  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The bfd_section_from_shdr 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 (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

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