CVE-2018-17359

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

CVSS v3.0

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

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 68th percentile

Published

2018-09-23

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-17358
• CVE-2018-17360
• CVE-2018-17334
• CVE-2018-17365
• CVE-2018-17333
• CVE-2018-17374