Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils-gold package, versions <2.32-6.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.68% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-BINUTILSGOLD-2733529
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed25 Oct 2019

Introduced: 25 Oct 2019

CVE-2018-6543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 binutils-gold to version 2.32-6.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-gold package and not the binutils-gold package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.