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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-17359): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 23, 2018
Added
Apr 23, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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ubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutils-multiarch

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