Integer Overflow and Application Crash in parse_die function of libbfd

CVE-2018-7568 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The parse_die function in dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm.

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