CVE-2018-17359 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted ELF file due to invalid memory access in the BFD library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-17359?
CVE-2018-17359 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, published on 23 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-17359?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnu Binutils.
How do I fix CVE-2018-17359?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-17359 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-17359 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Binutils
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17359, GHSA-6xc7-v897-2j4f, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17359.