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Vulnerability details: VCID-npnh-bjkd-aaak
Vulnerability ID VCID-npnh-bjkd-aaak
Aliases CVE-2018-6543
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-6543.html
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542275
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6543
cvssv3 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6543
cvssv3 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6543
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-6543.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6543.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6543
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6543
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22769
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102985
1542275 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542275
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-6543 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6543
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
USN-6413-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6413-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6543.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6543
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6543
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.45053
EPSS Score 0.00246
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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