CVE-2018-13033

binutils: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers t...

CVE-2018-13033 is fixed in 41 products on 1 platform, first by binutils 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3, released October 10, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0306
87th percentile

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
binutils · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-alpha-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-alpha-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-common · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-common 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-for-build · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-for-build 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-for-host · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-for-host 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-hppa-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-hppa-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-i686-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-i686-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-i686-kfreebsd-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-i686-kfreebsd-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-i686-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-i686-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-ia64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-ia64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-m68k-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-m68k-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mips-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mips-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mips64-linux-gnuabi64 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mips64-linux-gnuabi64 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mips64-linux-gnuabin32 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mips64-linux-gnuabin32 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mips64el-linux-gnuabin32 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mips64el-linux-gnuabin32 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsel-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsel-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa32r6-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa32r6-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa32r6el-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa32r6el-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabi64 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabi64 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabin32 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabin32 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabi64 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabi64 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabin32 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabin32 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-multiarch · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-multiarch 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-powerpc-linux-gnuspe · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-powerpc-linux-gnuspe 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-powerpc64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-powerpc64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-powerpc64le-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-powerpc64le-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-s390x-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-s390x-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-sh4-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-sh4-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-source · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-source 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-sparc64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-sparc64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-x86-64-kfreebsd-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-x86-64-kfreebsd-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
binutils-x86-64-linux-gnux32 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 binutils-x86-64-linux-gnux32 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019
libbinutils · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 libbinutils 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 Oct 10, 2019