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CVE-2018-1000876

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

binutils version 2.32 and earlier contains a Integer Overflow vulnerability in objdump, bfd_get_dynamic_reloc_upper_bound,bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_reloc that can result in Integer overflow trigger heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Local. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• GNU Binutils: before 2.32 — fixed in 2.32
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU Binutils 2.32. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106304
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23994
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106304
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23994

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