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CVE-2018-7568
medium
Description
The parse_die function in dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm.
References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22894
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html