VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-13033

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.06%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-01
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 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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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