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osvGoogleOSV:CVE-2018-18606
HistoryOct 23, 2018 - 5:29 p.m.

CVE-2018-18606

2018-10-2317:29:00
Google
osv.dev
5

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.6%

An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.