Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Jul 1, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-13033

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

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Affected products

GNU/BinutilsOSV2 versions
binutils-2_30, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: binutils-2_30, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …
- (no CPE)range: =2.30

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032nvdThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01nvd
usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd

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