VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-10535

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.13%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-04-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The ignore_section_sym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a "SECTION" type that has a "0" value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references