Security advisory

{
  "id": "11ba1154cfc78997b6295ac55acc953f54a80ad71bd584062ab8c11320276e7f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20002",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-20002",
    "summary": "The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-20002",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-20002",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-20002"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.31"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.31"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.31",
            "binutils-2_31"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20002.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.522592388Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01",
        "https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62602089",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23952",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "5.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "5.1.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:netapp:vasa_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "netapp:vasa_provider",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "4.4.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-20002",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438216,
  "published_at": "2018-12-10T02:29:00.39+00:00"
}