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Red Hat: CVE-2018-12697: Moderate: binutils security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2075)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-12697: Moderate: binutils security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:2075)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/23/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

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(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-binutils
  • redhat-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-binutils-devel

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