DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606
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Upstream
Published
2018-10-23T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-19T06:10:43Z
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the mergestrings 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 _bfdaddmergesection 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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.32.51.20190707-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.32.51.20190707-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.32.51.20190707-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.32.51.20190707-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}