cve/2018/CVE-2018-17360.md

CVE-2018-17360

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

POC

Reference

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23685

Github

• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list
• https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container