Memory corruption in Binutils - CVE-2018-18309
Published: October 15, 2018 / Updated: March 23, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU15370
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18309
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-18309
Install update from vendor's website.