Security advisory

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  "id": "9c3b74e3abe020ab25d5b2646e72aa9ba06355846933da967f59e6cf6b9f8e2b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7208",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-7208",
    "summary": "In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-7208",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-7208",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-7208"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.30"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.30"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.30",
            "binutils-2_30"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7208.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:30.195018918Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22741"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
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                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-7208",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 432524,
  "published_at": "2018-02-18T04:29:00.277+00:00"
}