SB2019060622 - Memory leak in binutils-avr (Alpine package)
Published: June 6, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019060622
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 leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20002)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in the _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils. A local attacker can send specially crafted ELF file, consume excessive resources and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.