Denial Of Service (DoS)

Binutils is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists in the ignoresectionsym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library because it does not validate the outputsection pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value. An...

Null pointer dereference

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...