SB2018012411 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils
Published: January 24, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018012411
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7208)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the coff_pointerize_aux function in the coffgen.c source code due to insufficient validation of an index. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted COFF file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger a segmentation fault and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.