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

The vulnerability of the bfdaddmergesection function in the GNU Binutils development environment is related to the assignment of a null pointer when attempting to merge sections with large differences. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a service failure...

Null pointer dereference

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

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...

DEBIAN-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...