Bug 1553119 – CVE-2018-7643 binutils: Integer overflow in the display_debug_ranges function resulting in crash

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Bug 1553119 - (CVE-2018-7643) CVE-2018-7643 binutils: Integer overflow in the display_debug_ranges function resulting in crash

Summary:	CVE-2018-7643 binutils: Integer overflow in the display_debug_ranges function...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-7643

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1551786 1553122 1551787 1579802
Blocks:	1553120
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Reported:	2018-03-08 05:53 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-10-30 03:24 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3032	None	None	None	2018-10-30 03:24 EDT

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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-08 05:53:10 EST

The display_debug_ranges function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows 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.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22905

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d11ae95ea3403559f052903ab053f43ad7821e37

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-08 05:57:27 EST

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1551786]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1551787]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 03:24:00 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3032 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032

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