ALPINE-CVE-2018-7208
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-7208
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-7208.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2018-7208
- Upstream
- Published
- 2018-02-18T04:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-19T11:17:56Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object.
- References
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.7 / binutils
Package
- Name
- binutils
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/binutils?arch=source