The vulnerability in the elf.c component of the GNU Binutils development environment allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the elf.c component in the GNU Binutils development environment is related to reading data beyond the allowed buffer size. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a service failure using a specially created object file...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-8945

The bfdsectionfromshdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a large attribute section...