#VU16897 Integer overflow in Binutils - CVE-2018-20673
Published: January 10, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16897
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20673
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Binutils
Binutils
Software vendor:
GNU
GNU
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow (for "Create an array for saving the template argument values") in the demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted ELF file, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.