SB2019060622 - Memory leak in binutils-avr (Alpine package)
Published: June 6, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019060622
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20002)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 memory leak in the _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils. A local attacker can send specially crafted ELF file, consume excessive resources and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.