Denial of Service Vulnerability in libbfd's swap_std_reloc_in Function

CVE-2018-7642 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The swap_std_reloc_in function in aoutx.h 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 (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy.

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