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

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2018-17358: binutils: invalid memory access in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2018-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-119, Red Hat, 2018, 17358, binutils, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 4

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Sep 23, 2018

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 16, 2026

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

References

CWE-119
EUVD-EUVD-2018-9113
NVD-CVE-2018-17358
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-9113

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