CVE-2018-13033

binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

La biblioteca Binary File Descriptor (BFD), conocida como libbfd, tal y como se distribuye en GNU Binutils 2.30 y anteriores permite que atacantes remotos provoquen una denegación de servicio (asignación excesiva de memoria y cierre inesperado de la aplicación) mediante un archivo ELF manipulado. Esto queda demostrado por _bfd_elf_parse_attributes en elf-attrs.c y bfd_malloc en libbfd.c. Esto puede ocurrir durante la ejecución de nm.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-07-01 CVE Reserved
2018-07-01 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
2024-11-15 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327	2019-10-03
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032	2019-10-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01	2019-10-03
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1	2019-10-03
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13033	2018-10-30
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597436	2018-10-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Binutils Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Binutils"				2.30 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Binutils" and version "2.30"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Desktop Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Desktop" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Server Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Server" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Workstation Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux Workstation" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Openshift Container Platform Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openshift Container Platform"				3.11 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Openshift Container Platform" and version "3.11"		-		Affected