CVE-2018-7570

The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-28

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22881
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=01f7e10cf2dcf403462b2feed06c43135651556d