CVE-2018-7570: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.30 only

Published 2018-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.