VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-17359
Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.29%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.29% probability · 69th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.