CVE-2018-12699

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04.4
GNU Binutils: 2.30

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104540
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/4336-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104540
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/4336-1/

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