CVE-2018-13033

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.30
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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