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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6759: binutils 2.30-r1 security vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6759: binutils 2.30-r1 security vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/06/2018
Created
12/28/2019
Added
12/27/2019
Modified
12/27/2019

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

References

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