{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.32.51.20190707-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.32.51.20190707-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.32.51.20190707-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5ND7VF54JHH7BMWZQRNJN54","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:04:47.214048410Z","published_at":"2018-10-23T17:29:00.517Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18606"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606#Debian:13/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18606"}],"summary":"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 _"}