SB2018101604 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils

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SB2018101604 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils

Published: October 16, 2018 Updated: March 23, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2018101604
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18309)

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to invalid memory address dereference in the read_relocfunction, as defined in the reloc.c source code after boundary error in the _bfd_clear_contents function. A local attacker can submit malicious input using the objdump command, trigger a segmentation fault and cause the affected application to crash.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References