vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6543: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2018-02-02
Added
2019-12-27
Modified
2024-10-01

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils
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