cve/2018/CVE-2018-20002.md

### [CVE-2018-20002](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20002)
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### Description

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952

#### Github
- https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list
- https://github.com/fuzz-evaluator/MemLock-Fuzz-eval
- https://github.com/wcventure/MemLock-Fuzz