High severity · published Jun 23, 2018
CVE-2018-12697
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…
7.5
CVSS
5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.0% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
2.30 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12697
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12697
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
Exploit
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
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