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CVE-2018-20651
medium
Description
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in elf_link_add_object_symbols in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. This occurs for a crafted ET_DYN with no program headers. A specially crafted ELF file allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38336243
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106440
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html