CVE-2018-7643: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The display_debug_ranges function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump.

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 2018-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.