Input validation error in Binutils - CVE-2018-13033
Published: January 22, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17113
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13033
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library. A remote attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and application crash via a specially crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c.
Affected software
Binutils
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13033
Install update from vendor's website.