Denial Of Service (DoS)

systemtap is vulnerable to denial of service. An invalid pointer read flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap unprivileged mode was enabled, an unprivileged user in the stapusr group could use this flaw to crash the system or,...

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...