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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 6, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-6759

CVE-2018-6759

Description

The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, has an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF file.

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