suse · CVE-2018-6543

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:10:45 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:32:27 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-6543 severity moderate: SUSE including 387 source package names (0.23.1-12.3:binutils-2.32-7.5.1, 0.3.2-1.2:binutils-2.32-7.5.1, …), 814 product×package rows across 330 product lines (Container bci/bci-sle15-kernel-module-devel, Container bci/gcc, … (330 product lines)): Fixed 547, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 36.

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.

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