vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-17358: binutils: invalid memory access in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 23, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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