Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018183090000000
Revision Date:2018-10-15Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-18309 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in read_reloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, as demonstrated by objdump, because of missing _bfd_clear_contents bounds checking.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-18309
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND binutils package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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