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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1937723
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 2 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 2 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17794 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.