Denial of service in GNU Binutils



| Updated: 2020-01-21
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2018-17358
CWE-ID CWE-119
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Binutils
Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products

Vendor GNU

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU24443

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17358

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing ELF files within the _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line() function in syms.c in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd). A remote attacker can create a specially crafted ELF file, pass it to the affected application and trigger invalid memory access, resulting in denial of service conditions.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Binutils: 2.31 - 2.31.1

CPE2.3 External links

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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