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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:20088
HistoryMay 16, 2019 - 3:54 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-05-1603:54:33
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
11

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.9%

Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library distributed in GNU Binutils is vulnerable to denial of service(DoS) attacks. This exists in the bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c which allows remote attackers to cause a application crash (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.