Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.15% (51st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-404209
- published 10 Dec 2018
- disclosed 10 Dec 2018
Introduced: 10 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20002 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20002
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20002
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106142
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-20002
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9