CVE-2018-19931

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

References (8)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 54.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-787
Status published

Affected Products (3)

gnu/binutils < 2.31
netapp/vasa_provider
canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Dec 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026