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CVE-2018-20002

CVE-2018-20002

EPSS 1.8%
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols 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.
Affected products
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References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142