Improper Input Validation Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.72% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368514
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8945  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

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