Denial of Service Vulnerability in elf_parse_notes Function of libbfd

CVE-2018-6872 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.

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