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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-10535: ELSA-2018-3032: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-10535: ELSA-2018-3032: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/24/2018
Created
05/08/2019
Added
10/16/2024
Modified
10/17/2024

Description

The ignore_section_sym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils-devel

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