DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6543

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6543
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6543.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6543
Upstream
Published
2018-02-02T09:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:34Z
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

Debian:11 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.30-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.30-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.30-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.30-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}