CVE-2018-12697

N/A
Published: June 23, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:38 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxBinutils

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (8)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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