CVE-2018-19932

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4336-2

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.

Se ha descubierto un problema en la biblioteca Binary File Descriptor (BFD), también conocida como libbfd, tal y como se distribuye en GNU Binutils hasta la versión 2.31. Hay un desbordamiento de enteros y un bucle infinito provocados por la macro IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA en elf.c.

USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU binutils. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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

2018-12-07 CVE Reserved
2018-12-07 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144	Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=beab453223769279cc1cef68a1622ab8978641f7	X_refsource_misc

URL	Date	SRC
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23932	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004	2023-11-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html	2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html	2023-11-07
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01	2023-11-07
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1	2023-11-07

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"	Vasa Provider Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Vasa Provider"	>= 7.2 Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Vasa Provider" and version " >= 7.2"	-	Affected	in	Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"	Cluster Data Ontap Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Cluster Data Ontap"	-	-	Safe
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Binutils Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Binutils"				<= 2.31 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Binutils" and version " <= 2.31"		-		Affected