CVE-2018-12699
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
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104540x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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