{"id":"CVE-2018-6543","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-16T06:15:14.179131613Z","published":"2018-02-02T09:29:00.647Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2018:3170-1","SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1","SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2","SUSE-SU-2019:2779-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2780-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2415-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2432-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102985"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22769"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.30"}]}}],"versions":["binutils-2_30","gdb-4_18-branchpoint","gdb-7.10-branchpoint","gdb-7.11-branchpoint","gdb-7.12-branchpoint","gdb-7.7-branchpoint","gdb-7.8-branchpoint","gdb-7.9-branchpoint","gdb-8.0-branchpoint","gdb-8.1-branchpoint","gdb_5_2-branchpoint","gdb_5_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_0-branchpoint","gdb_6_1-branchpoint","gdb_6_2-branchpoint","gdb_6_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_4-branchpoint","gdb_6_5-branchpoint","gdb_6_6-branchpoint","gdb_6_7-branchpoint","gdb_6_8-branchpoint","gdb_7_0-branchpoint","gdb_7_1-branchpoint","gdb_7_2-branchpoint","gdb_7_3-branchpoint","gdb_7_4-branchpoint","gdb_7_5-branchpoint","gdb_7_6-branchpoint","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4","users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6543.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}