CVE-2018-18606 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-18606 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.68% · 71.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.68%

71.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	binutils	0, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1, 2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	binutils	0, 2.25.1-6ubuntu1, 2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu2
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	binutils	0, 2.29.1-4ubuntu1, 2.29.1-6ubuntu1

Timeline

Oct 23, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18606 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-2018-18606 third-party-advisory

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