Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2018-12700
Published: June 26, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13474
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12700
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to DEBUG_KIND_INDIRECT infinite recursion condition. A local attacker can execute the objdump command, trigger stack exhaustion condition in the debug_write_type function, as defined in debug.c source code file and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-12700
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