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Vulnerability details: VCID-knz8-626a-gkgy
Vulnerability ID VCID-knz8-626a-gkgy
Aliases CVE-2018-17358
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_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.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
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17358.json
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00211 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
epss 0.00447 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
cvssv3.1 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17358
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17358
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17358.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17358
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17358
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/25
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23686
1632908 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632908
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-2018-17358 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17358
USN-4336-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17358.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17358
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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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-2018-17358
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

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none

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.43807
EPSS Score 0.00211
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:37:42.433316+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ 37.0.0