Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 23, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-18606
CVE-2018-18606
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.
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Affected products
56- osv-coords54 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-aarch64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-arm-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-avr-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-epiphany-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-hppa64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-hppa-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-i386-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-ia64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-m68k-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-mips-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-ppc64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-ppc64le-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-riscv64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-rx-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-s390-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-s390x-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-sparc64-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-sparc-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5
< 2.32-lp150.10.1+ 53 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.32-lp150.10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.32-lp151.3.3.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.32-9.33.1
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Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/105754nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0003/nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.htmlnvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd
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