cve/2018/CVE-2018-17358.md

CVE-2018-17358

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
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686

Github

• https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container