VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-12699

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability4.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-06-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references