CVE-2018-7568

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7568
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7568.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7568
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-02-28T21:29:00.293Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:53:20.516629577Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The parse_die function in dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.30
Other
binutils-2_30

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7568.json"