Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw-binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)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-1731725
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17360  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.