PT-2018-3954 · Gnu+5 · Gnu Binutils+5

Thuan Pham · Published 2018-04-14 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-10373

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Description The issue is related to the concat filename function in the dwarf2.c component of the GNU Binutils, which is associated with NULL pointer dereference errors. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted binary file.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.30, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected by the concat filename function vulnerability in the dwarf2.c component. 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:2023-07782

CESA-2018_3032

CVE-2018-10373

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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