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CVE-2018-18606 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.
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.