Updated: 2024-11-24 03:52:43.416565
Description:
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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | MEDIUM | 4.3 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 5.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1640621287 | 2022-05-05 12:03:34 | |
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1639670535 | 2021-12-27 14:17:43 | |
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1639670584 | 2021-12-16 15:55:36 | |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | binutils | 2.26 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1635459139 | 2021-12-16 10:40:04 |