CVE-2018-17360: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.31.1 only

Published 2018-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.