CVE-2018-12699

CRITICAL

GNU Binutils 2.30 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104540
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 69.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04.4
gnu/binutils 2.30
Published Jun 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026