Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 23, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-12699
CVE-2018-12699
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.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
< 2.30-125.el8_10+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.30-125.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 2.30-125.el8_10
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/104540nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd
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