Improper resource shutdown in Binutils - CVE-2018-8945

Vulnerability identifier: #VU11262

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8945

CWE-ID: CWE-404

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The weakness exists in the bfd_section_from_shdr function due to improper bounds checking. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted ELF file and cause the service to crash.

Binutils
Gentoo Linux
binutils (Alpine package)

Install update from vendor's website.

binutils (Alpine package) - update to 2.30-r2

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809

• Denial of service in GNU Binutils
• Improper resource shutdown in binutils (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for Binutils