vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-17360: binutils: heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.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. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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