CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6543
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In GNU Binutils 2.30, there's an integer overflow in the function load_specific_debug_section() in objdump.c, which results in `malloc()` with 0 size. A crafted ELF file allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.30
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102985 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22769 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102985 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22769 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory