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CVE-2018-7643

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The display_debug_ranges function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.30
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

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/103264
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22905
• 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/103264
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032

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