CVE-2018-6543

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 2, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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