Published: 23/09/2018 Updated: 31/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 384

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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gnu binutils 2.31.1

Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils ...

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 231 An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opnclsc Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file ...

CWE-119 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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