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Red Hat: CVE-2018-8945: Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:3032)

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2018-8945: Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:3032)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2018-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2018, 8945, Low, redhat-upgrade-binutils, redhat-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-binutils-devel, Severity 4

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Mar 22, 2018

Added

Oct 31, 2018

Modified

Feb 19, 2026

Description

The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c 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 (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-binutilsredhat-upgrade-binutils-debuginforedhat-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

NVD-CVE-2018-8945
REDHAT-RHBA-2019:0327
REDHAT-RHSA-2018:3032

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