suse · CVE-2018-18309

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 14:17:49 UTC Updated: 2026-03-05 06:38:56 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-18309 severity low: SUSE including 361 source package names (0.23.1-12.3:binutils-2.32-7.5.1, 0.3.2-1.2:binutils-2.32-7.5.1, …), 768 product×package rows across 320 product lines (Container bci/bci-sle15-kernel-module-devel, Container bci/gcc, … (320 product lines)): Fixed 535, Known Affected 231, Will Not Fix 2.

Description:

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.

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