Heap-based Buffer Over-read in BFD Library Allows Denial of Service via Crafted PE File

CVE-2018-17360 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

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