Integer overflow in Binutils - CVE-2018-6543

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10366

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6543

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the load_specific_debug_section function in GNU Binutilsdue to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file, trigger integer overflow and cause the service to crash.

Binutils
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
binutils (Alpine package)
binutils (Ubuntu package)
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package)
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Platform Automation Toolkit

Install update from vendor's website.

binutils (Alpine package) - update to 2.30-r2
binutils (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 2.10.65
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
Platform Automation Toolkit - addressed in versions 4.0.13, 4.1.13, 4.2.8, 4.3.5

• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=35f48e217ab6f909510bf9ca07325ec1...

• Denial of service in GNU Binutils
• Integer overflow in binutils (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for Binutils
• VMware Tanzu products update for GNU binutils
• Ubuntu update for binutils