CVE-2018-18309 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-18309 PUBLISHED

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.

EPSS 0.29% · 52.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.29%

52.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	binutils	0, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1, 2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	binutils	2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.2, 0, 2.29.1-4ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	binutils	2.26-7ubuntu2, 2.26-8ubuntu1, 2.26-8ubuntu2

Timeline

Oct 15, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18309 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18309 third-party-advisory

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