CVE-2018-19931

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 44.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
GNU BinutilsCanonical Ubuntu LinuxNetapp Vasa Provider
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianbinutils< 2.32.51.20190707-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.31

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04

Patches

Patch: security.netapp.com ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: security.netapp.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7w52-j2x8-qcp8: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-19931: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2↗2018-12-07
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OSV
CVE-2018-19931: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2↗2018-12-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2020-04-22
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Red Hat
binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in function resulting in a denial of service↗2018-11-30
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Debian
CVE-2018-19931: binutils - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19931 binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in function resulting in a denial of service↗2018-12-13
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