Vulnerability CVE-2018-12699


Published: 2018-06-23   Modified: 2018-06-24

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.

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Binutils 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 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

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