vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-19931)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 7, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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