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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:26952
HistorySep 21, 2020 - 6:27 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2020-09-2106:27:26
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
6

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.6%

binutils:bionic is vulnerable to denail of service (DoS). A flaw in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) results in 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.