CVE-2018-12697

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04.4
GNU Binutils: 2.30

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

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