SB2018070101 - Input validation error in GNU Binutils
Published: July 1, 2018 Updated: January 22, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018070101
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13033)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.