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CVE-2018-20002

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.82%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-12-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-20002
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.82%

Original NVD Description

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.