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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-18605: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-18605: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/23/2018
Created
05/31/2019
Added
05/30/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the function sec_merge_hash_lookup in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, because _bfd_add_merge_section mishandles section merges when size is not a multiple of entsize. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-i386-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-sparc-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0

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