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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-12697

This can occur during execution of objdump.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 5.00%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.00%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
5.00% probability · 92th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
gnu/binutils · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.