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CVE-2018-7642
medium
Description
The swap_std_reloc_in function in aoutx.h 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 (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy.
References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22887
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html