PT-2018-2450 · Gnu+5 · Gnu Binutils+5

Guodong Zhu + 1 · Published 2018-04-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-10535

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.30

Description The issue is related to the ignore section sym function in the elf.c file of the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library, which is part of GNU Binutils. This function does not validate the output section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value. As a result, remote attackers can cause a denial of service, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, by providing a crafted file. For example, this can be demonstrated using objcopy.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.30, consider updating to a newer version that includes a fix for this issue, as the current version allows for a denial of service attack via a crafted file. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1204

ALT-PU-2019-1367

BDU:2019-00672

CESA-2018_3032

CVE-2018-10535

MGASA-2019-0169

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3223-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3323-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1

RHSA-2018:3032

RHSA-2018_3032

SUSE-SU-2018:3170-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2

USN-4336-1

USN-4336-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnu Binutils

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

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