vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-12697: binutils -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 23, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-binutils
Title
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