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CVE-2018-12697

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 23, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12697
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
BinutilsGnu2.30 (including)2.30 (including)
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28*
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatansible-tower-35/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28*
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-28*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatbinutils-0:2.27-41.base.el7*
BinutilsUbuntuartful*
BinutilsUbuntubionic*
BinutilsUbuntucosmic*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
BinutilsUbuntuprecise/esm*
BinutilsUbuntutrusty*
BinutilsUbuntutrusty/esm*
BinutilsUbuntuupstream*
BinutilsUbuntuxenial*
LibibertyUbuntuartful*
LibibertyUbuntubionic*
LibibertyUbuntucosmic*
LibibertyUbuntudisco*
LibibertyUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
LibibertyUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
LibibertyUbuntutrusty*
LibibertyUbuntuupstream*
LibibertyUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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