Astra Linux – Vulnerability in binutils

A issue was discovered in the mergestrings function in the merge.c file within the Binary File Descriptor BFD library also known as libbfd, as part of the GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereferencing issue when attempting to merge sections with large alignments using bfdaddmergesectio...

GNU Binutils Binary File Descriptor library null pointer dereference vulnerability

GNU Binutils a.k.a. GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a set of programming language utilities developed by the GNU Project to work with object files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for object files and archives.The Binary File Descriptor BFD library a.k.a...

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 ...