An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-10-23T17:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T11:15:59.847Z
Reserved: 2018-10-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-18606
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-10-23T17:29:00.517
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:14.227
Link: CVE-2018-18606
Redhat