Information Exposure Affecting gcc-8 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GCC8-347558
  • published22 May 2019
  • disclosed22 May 2019

Introduced: 22 May 2019

CVE-2018-12886  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 gcc-8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gcc-8 package and not the gcc-8 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

stack_protect_prologue in cfgexpand.c and stack_protect_epilogue in function.c in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.1 through 8 (under certain circumstances) generate instruction sequences when targeting ARM targets that spill the address of the stack protector guard, which allows an attacker to bypass the protection of -fstack-protector, -fstack-protector-all, -fstack-protector-strong, and -fstack-protector-explicit against stack overflow by controlling what the stack canary is compared against.