NULL pointer dereference in Binutils - CVE-2018-10373
Published: January 22, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17114
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10373
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the concat_filename in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library. A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions via a specially crafted binary file, as demonstrated by nm-new.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-10373
Install update from vendor's website.