Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting mingw-w64 package, versions *
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- published14 Aug 2018
- disclosed14 Aug 2018
Introduced: 14 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-5392 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9 mingw-w64.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw-w64 package and not the mingw-w64 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
mingw-w64 version 5.0.4 by default produces executables that opt in to ASLR, but are not compatible with ASLR. ASLR is an exploit mitigation technique used by modern Windows platforms. For ASLR to function, Windows executables must contain a relocations table. Despite containing the "Dynamic base" PE header, which indicates ASLR compatibility, Windows executables produced by mingw-w64 have the relocations table stripped from them by default. This means that executables produced by mingw-w64 are vulnerable to return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Windows executables generated by mingw-w64 claim to be ASLR compatible, but are not. Vulnerabilities in such executables are more easily exploitable as a result.