CVE-2018-8945

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 1.99 % · percentile 81 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-03-22
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

Description

The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c 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 (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-20553
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-8945

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-267 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Networks Junos Space · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD