vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-7642: Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:3032)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 2, 2018
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The swap_std_reloc_in function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Solution(s)

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-binutilsredhat-upgrade-binutils-debuginforedhat-upgrade-binutils-devel
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