cve/2018/CVE-2018-20002.md

CVE-2018-20002

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