CVE-2018-12697
This can occur during execution of objdump.
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
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- gnu/binutils · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 5.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104538Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.