Candidate: CVE-2018-6872
PublicDate: 2018-02-09 06:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6872
Description:
 The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD)
 library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote
 attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation
 violation) via a note with a large alignment.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 ratliff> without ASAN, does not segfault on trusty nor xenial
 mdeslaur> code is different in xenial, needs backport
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22788
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Jay Zhang
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_binutils:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ef135d4314fd4c2d7da66b9d7b59af4a85b0f7e6 (trunk)
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d895ef77ffc94e02e748856c2ab54f5bb8cc867e (2.30 branch)
upstream_binutils: released (2.31)
precise/esm_binutils: ignored (end of ESM support, was not-affected)
trusty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
xenial_binutils: ignored (end of standard support, was not-affected)
esm-infra/xenial_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
artful_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_binutils: released (2.30-20ubuntu2~18.04)
cosmic_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1)
disco_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1)
eoan_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1)
focal_binutils: not-affected (2.34-6ubuntu1)
groovy_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1)
hirsute_binutils: not-affected (2.31.1-6ubuntu1)
impish_binutils: not-affected (2.37-7ubuntu1)
jammy_binutils: not-affected (2.38-2ubuntu1)
devel_binutils: not-affected (2.38-2ubuntu1)