vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12699): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 23, 2018
Added
Apr 23, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutils-multiarch
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