GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922
- https://github.com/fdu-sec/NestFuzz
- https://github.com/lysgoup/NestFuzz_test