CVE-2018-13033

binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 1, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

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 score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 2.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption