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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6759: Improper Input Validation

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 6, 2018
Added
Dec 27, 2019
Modified
Oct 1, 2024

Description

The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, has an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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