CVE-2018-8945

binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted executable

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 7, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

The bfd_section_from_shdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption