NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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1.56% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075261
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed23 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

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