Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.30

CVE-2018-13033 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

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