Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting cross-hppa-binutils package, versions <2.31-6.3.1


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-CROSSHPPABINUTILS-2760703
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018

Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 cross-hppa-binutils to version 2.31-6.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cross-hppa-binutils package and not the cross-hppa-binutils 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.