CVE-2018-20002

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils due to a memory leak in the _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function within syms.c in libbfd, where an attacker could exploit this flaw by persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, resulting in excessive memory consumption and causing a denial of service condition.

This vulnerability was rated as LOW severity because it requires the victim to open a specially crafted file, it does not result in system compromise, it can cause the application to consume excessive memory and crash.

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