Published: 10/12/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023

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

It exists that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils ...

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in symsc in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 231, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm ...

CWE-772 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

CVE-2018-20002

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