cve/2018/CVE-2018-18606.md

CVE-2018-18606

Description

An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.

POC

Reference

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list