CVE-2018-19932

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23932

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=beab453223769279cc1cef68a1622ab8978641f7

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-12-07

Updated: 2019-08-03

Type: CWE-190

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM