CVE-2018-12698 Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.51% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-525174
- published 23 Jun 2018
- disclosed 23 Jun 2018
Introduced: 23 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12698 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.32.51.20190707-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12698
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104539
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-12698