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CVE-2018-17359

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.31.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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