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CVE-2018-18606
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Date: October 23, 2018
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
Language: C
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Severity Score
Weakness Type (CWE)
NULL Pointer Dereference
CWE-476Top Fix
CVSS v3.1
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Attack Vector (AV): | LOCAL |
Attack Complexity (AC): | LOW |
Privileges Required (PR): | NONE |
User Interaction (UI): | REQUIRED |
Scope (S): | UNCHANGED |
Confidentiality (C): | NONE |
Integrity (I): | NONE |
Availability (A): | HIGH |
CVSS v2
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Access Vector (AV): | NETWORK |
Access Complexity (AC): | MEDIUM |
Authentication (AU): | NONE |
Confidentiality (C): | NONE |
Integrity (I): | NONE |
Availability (A): | PARTIAL |
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