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LIN9-6636 : Security Advisory - binutils - CVE-2018-8945

Created: Apr 2, 2018    Updated: Feb 25, 2019
Resolved Date: Feb 20, 2019
Found In Version: 9.0.0.15
Fix Version: 9.0.0.20
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8945

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