CVE ID:	CVE-2018-18606
Description:	An issue was discovered in the merge_strings function in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section when attempting to merge sections with large alignments. A specially crafted ELF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by ld.
Test IDs:	None available
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-18606 BugTraq ID: 105754 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105754 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23806 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:2415 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:2432 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/