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LIN9-7634 : Security Advisory - binutils - CVE-2018-18606

Created: Oct 31, 2018    Updated: Dec 10, 2018
Resolved Date: Nov 22, 2018
Found In Version: 9.0.0.18
Fix Version: 9.0.0.19
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18606

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