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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-BINUTILS-349195
  • published28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed23 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 23 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in elf_link_input_bfd in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in elf_link_input_bfd when used for finding STT_TLS symbols without any TLS section. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.