Astra Linux – Vulnerability in binutils

A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in the secmergehashlookup function in merge.c within the Binary File Descriptor BFD library also known as libbfd, as part of the GNU Binutils 2.31. This issue arises due to bfdaddmergesection improperly handling section merges when the size is not...

UBUNTU-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...