vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-18607: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in elf_link_input_bfd in elflink.c

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

Description

An issue was discovered in elf_link_input_bfd in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in elf_link_input_bfd when used for finding STT_TLS symbols without any TLS section. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

Solution

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