Security Advisory
CVE-2018-20002
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 10, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory