NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libiberty  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-LIBIBERTY-650119
  • published30 Sept 2018
  • disclosed30 Sept 2018

Introduced: 30 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libiberty package and not the libiberty package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.