CVE-2018-18607

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.31

Description The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the elf link input bfd function when searching for STT TLS symbols without any TLS section. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service using a specially crafted ELF file.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.31, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected by the null pointer dereference in the elf link input bfd function. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.