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Vulnerability details: VCID-9sfd-pess-aaam
Vulnerability ID VCID-9sfd-pess-aaam
Aliases CVE-2018-17359
Summary An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfd_zalloc in opncls.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-17359.html
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632914
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17359
cvssv3 4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17359
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generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1
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Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-17359.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17359.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17359
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17359
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4336-1
1632914 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632914
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-17359 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17359
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17359.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17359
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

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none

none

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none

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none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17359
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.27151
EPSS Score 0.00115
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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