CVE-2018-6543

Publication date

2018-02-02 09:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

In GNU Binutils 2.30, theres 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.