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CVE-2018-12699 Details

Description

finish_stab in stabs.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write of 8 bytes. This can occur during execution of objdump.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102 CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454 CVEExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 CVE
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057 CVEExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnu binutils
2.30

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux
16.04.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-12699
NVD Published Date:
Jun 23, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]