CVE-2018-12699
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.45%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-12699
To remediate CVE-2018-12699, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/binutils—upgrade to 2.32.51.20190707-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-12699 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.32.51.20190707-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |