Denial of Service Vulnerability in BFD Library's bfd_section_from_shdr Function

CVE-2018-8945 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The bfd_section_from_shdr 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 (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

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