CVE-2018-18606 -- binutilsID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1902059 | Date: (C)2019-06-10 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor library , 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.
Platform: |
Ubuntu 16.04 |
Ubuntu 18.10 |
Ubuntu 18.04 |