CVE-2018-7569

binutils: integer underflow or overflow via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block in libbfd library

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 26, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

An integer wraparound has been discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library distributed in GNU Binutils up to version 2.30. An attacker could cause a crash by providing an ELF file with corrupted DWARF debug information.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound