Red Hat: CVE-2018-7569: Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:3032)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
02/28/2018
03/19/2019
10/31/2018
03/03/2021
Description
dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow or overflow, and application crash) via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block, as demonstrated by nm.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-binutils
- redhat-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-binutils-devel
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