cve/2018/CVE-2018-17358.md

### [CVE-2018-17358](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17358)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686

#### Github
- https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container