cve/2018/CVE-2018-6543.md

CVE-2018-6543

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22769

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example
• https://github.com/comed-ian/OffSec_2022_lecture