Security Advisory
CVE-2018-20651
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in elf_link_add_object_symbols in elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. This occurs for a crafted ET_DYN with no program headers. A specially crafted ELF file allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
Published Date
January 1, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory