CVE-2018-12698 Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403978
  • published23 Jun 2018
  • disclosed23 Jun 2018

Introduced: 23 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12698  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable 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.