NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw-binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGWBINUTILSDEBUGSOURCE-1731694
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-10535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 mingw-binutils-debugsource package and not the mingw-binutils-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

The ignore_section_sym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy.