CVE-2018-6543

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6543
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6543.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6543
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-02-02T09:29:00.647Z
Modified
2026-07-09T04:49:54.091736Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In GNU Binutils 2.30, there's an integer overflow in the function loadspecificdebug_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.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce
Last affected
8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.30"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.30"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.30
Other
binutils-2_30

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6543.json"