CVE-2018-7569: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dwarf2.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 underflow or overflow, and application crash) via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block, as demonstrated by nm.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.30 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.