Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.38% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-404213
- published 23 Jun 2018
- disclosed 23 Jun 2018
Introduced: 23 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12699 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
binutils
.
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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12699
- 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/104540
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-12699