cve/2018/CVE-2018-8945.md

CVE-2018-8945

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
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22809

Github

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