UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12697

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12697

    Published: 23 Jun 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12697

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12697, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12697

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm8?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1
    2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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