{"id":"CVE-2018-6872","details":"The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.","modified":"2026-04-11T18:10:27.603504Z","published":"2018-02-09T06:29:00.350Z","related":["MGASA-2019-0169","SUSE-SU-2018:3170-1","SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1","SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2","SUSE-SU-2019:2779-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2780-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2415-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2432-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef135d4314fd4c2d7da66b9d7b59af4a85b0f7e6"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103103"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22788"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.30"}]}}],"versions":["binutils-2_30","gdb-4_18-branchpoint","gdb-7.10-branchpoint","gdb-7.11-branchpoint","gdb-7.12-branchpoint","gdb-7.7-branchpoint","gdb-7.8-branchpoint","gdb-7.9-branchpoint","gdb-8.0-branchpoint","gdb-8.1-branchpoint","gdb_5_2-branchpoint","gdb_5_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_0-branchpoint","gdb_6_1-branchpoint","gdb_6_2-branchpoint","gdb_6_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_4-branchpoint","gdb_6_5-branchpoint","gdb_6_6-branchpoint","gdb_6_7-branchpoint","gdb_6_8-branchpoint","gdb_7_0-branchpoint","gdb_7_1-branchpoint","gdb_7_2-branchpoint","gdb_7_3-branchpoint","gdb_7_4-branchpoint","gdb_7_5-branchpoint","gdb_7_6-branchpoint","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4","users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6872.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}