CVE-2018-13033: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.30 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only

Published 2018-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.