CVE-2018-7643

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Integer Overflow

Title source: rule

Description

The display_debug_ranges function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump.

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103264

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22905

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 38.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-190

Status published

Affected Products (4)

gnu/binutils

redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop

redhat/enterprise_linux_server

redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation

Timeline

Published Mar 02, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026