CVE-2018-17358

2018-09-2300:00:00

ubuntu.com

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

57.0%

JSON

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka
libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access
exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could
leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application
crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Bugs

<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686>

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchbinutils< 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchbinutils< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchbinutils< 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-onlyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	binutils	< 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	binutils	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	binutils	< 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only	UNKNOWN