NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILSDEBUGSOURCE-1326942
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Apr 2018

Introduced: 11 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-12697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-debugsource package and not the binutils-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

A NULL pointer dereference (aka SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000) was discovered in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This can occur during execution of objdump.