Security Advisory

CVE-2018-17359

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-23 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:47:04
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.