Bug 1661534 (CVE-2018-20002) - CVE-2018-20002 binutils: memory leak in _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c
Summary: CVE-2018-20002 binutils: memory leak in _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols functio...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-20002
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1661535 1661536 1661537 1668673 1668674 1668675 1668676 1668677
Blocks: 1661538
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Reported: 2018-12-21 13:43 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-10-27 03:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 03:20:58 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-12-21 13:43:44 UTC 
A flaw was found in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. A memory leak via a crafted ELF file in the _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c. This could lead to a denial of service attack (memory consumption). 


References:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952 

Upstream Patch:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-12-21 13:44:21 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1661535]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1661537]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1661536]
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