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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cross-mips-binutils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-CROSSMIPSBINUTILS-2730734
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 24 Oct 2019

CVE-2018-18606  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.