GHSA-fjh3-52qv-365r

GHSA-fjh3-52qv-365r PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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