cve/2018/CVE-2018-8945.md

### [CVE-2018-8945](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8945)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809

#### Github
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example