CVE-2018-12699 — Out-of-bounds Write in Binutils
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 23
Latest updateMay 14
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages2 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
6Microsoft▶
stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact as demonstrated by ↗2021-12-14
💬Community
4Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12699 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c [fedora-all]↗2018-06-26
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12699 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c [epel-all]↗2018-06-26
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12699 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c [fedora-all]↗2018-06-26