Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.31)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.46% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368404
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.31 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.

CVSS Base Scores

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