CVE-2018-8945 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (libbfd) within GNU Binutils 2.30, affecting various GNU and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered by a remote attacker providing a crafted large attribute section, leading to a segmentation fault. While the attack requires user interaction and local access, it can result in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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