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CVE-2018-18606

CVE-2018-18606

EPSS 2.2%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.htmlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fchttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105754