Resource Exhaustion Affecting mingw-binutils-generic package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGWBINUTILSGENERIC-1328302
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Dec 2018

Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 mingw-binutils-generic.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw-binutils-generic package and not the mingw-binutils-generic package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.