CVE-2018-12699

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Binutils
PublishedJun 23, 2018
First seenJun 23, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu binutils2.30—
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04.4—

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