A flaw was found in The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file. This can occur during execution of nm.
References:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597440]
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: epel-all [bug 1597438]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597442]
Comment 3Pedro YĆ³ssis Silva Barbosa
2018-07-06 15:46:31 UTC