cve/2018/CVE-2018-7568.md

CVE-2018-7568

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.

POC

Reference

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22894
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22894

Github

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