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CVE-2018-18309
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 0.18% · 38.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.18%
38.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | binutils | 0, 2.24-5ubuntu1, * |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | binutils | 2.29.1-8ubuntu1, 2.30-5ubuntu1, 2.30-7ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | binutils | 2.25.90.20160101-1ubuntu2, 2.25.90.20160101-1ubuntu1, 2.25.90.20151211-0ubuntu2 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Oct 15, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
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