CVE-2018-20002

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20002
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20002.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20002
Downstream
Published
2018-12-10T02:29:00.390Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:39.586745113Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The bfdgenericreadminisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:netapp:vasa_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "netapp:vasa_provider",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages