CVE-2018-13033Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 19.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 1
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

Also affects: Openshift Container Platform 3.11

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-pxx5-469h-xj5h: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22022-05-13
OSV
CVE-2018-13033: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22018-07-01
CVEList
CVE-2018-13033: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22018-07-01

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities2021-07-21
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities2020-04-22
Red Hat
binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm2018-07-01
Debian
CVE-2018-13033: binutils - The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Bin...2018

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13033 mingw-binutils: binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm [epel-all]2018-07-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13033 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm [fedora-all]2018-07-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13033 mingw-binutils: binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm [fedora-all]2018-07-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13033 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm2018-07-02
CVE-2018-13033 — GNU Binutils vulnerability | cvebase