Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILSDEBUGSOURCE-1329197
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 Feb 2018

Introduced: 5 Feb 2018

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-debugsource package and not the binutils-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

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.