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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions <2.30.90.20180627-1

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.62% (79th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
2.8 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-521578
  • published 11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed 1 Jul 2018
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Introduced: 1 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13033 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.30.90.20180627-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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.