NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cross-epiphany-binutils package, versions <2.31-6.3.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.24% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-CROSSEPIPHANYBINUTILS-2760345
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018

Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-10535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 cross-epiphany-binutils to version 2.31-6.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cross-epiphany-binutils package and not the cross-epiphany-binutils package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.