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CVE-2018-6543
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-02T09:29:00.647 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:01:59.777

Summary

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 products

gnu — binutils

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