FKIE_CVE-2018-12697

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-23 23:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:38
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference (aka SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000) was discovered in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This can occur during execution of objdump.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu binutils 2.30
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04.4
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