The vulnerability of the `ignore_section_sym` function in the GNU Binutils development environment allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ignoresectionsym function in the GNU Binutils development toolset is related to the lack of NULL check and the assignment of the outputsection pointer when writing a symtab with the type “SECTION”. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause servic...

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in elf.c

The ignoresectionsym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the outputsection pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial o...