CVE-2018-6872: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The elf_parse_notes function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.30 only

Published 2018-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.