K24353255: Binutils vulnerabilities CVE-2018-18605, CVE-2018-18606, and CVE-2018-18607

Security Advisory Description CVE-2018-18605 A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the function secmergehashlookup in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, because bfdaddmergesection mishandles section merges when size i...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in GNU Binutils affect IBM Netezza Performance Server

Summary GNU Binutils is used by IBM Netezza Platform Server. IBM Netezza Platform Server has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-18607 DESCRIPTION: GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the elflinkinputbfd in...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:2779-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1205)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2099)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1074)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2019-2415)

This update for binutils fixes the following issues : binutils was updated to current 2.32 branch jscECO-368. Includes following security fixes : - CVE-2018-17358: Fixed invalid memory access in bfdstabsectionfindnearestline in syms.c bsc1109412 - CVE-2018-17359: Fixed invalid memory access exist...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2019:2650-1)

This update for binutils fixes the following issues : binutils was updated to current 2.32 branch @7b468db3 jscECO-368 : Includes the following security fixes : CVE-2018-17358: Fixed invalid memory access in bfdstabsectionfindnearestline in syms.c bsc1109412 CVE-2018-17359: Fixed invalid memory...

BELL-CVE-2018-18606 CVE-2018-18606 does not affect BellSoft software

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CVE-2018-18606

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...

CVE-2018-18606

CVE-2018-18606 affects GNU Binutils (libbfd). The issue is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section during merging of sections with large alignments, enabling DoS via crafted ELF. Multiple vendors document this under Binutils remediation; confirmed fixes involve upgrading Binutils to ...