CVE-2018-19931

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-12-07

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Binutils (Gnu)
• Vasa Provider (Netapp)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/