SB2018101604 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils
Published: October 16, 2018 Updated: March 23, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018101604
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18309)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to invalid memory address dereference in the read_relocfunction, as defined in the reloc.c source code after boundary error in the _bfd_clear_contents function. A local attacker can submit malicious input using the objdump command, trigger a segmentation fault and cause the affected application to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.