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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 18, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-7208

CVE-2018-7208

Description

In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object.

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