CVE-2018-19931 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8