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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-12699

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CVE-2018-12699

binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (low), AlmaLinux (low), Oracle (low), Rocky Linux (low), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 3.0crash8.0.2-1.ph3
Photon OS 4.0crash, crash-devel8.0.2-1.ph4
alma 8binutils, binutils-devel2.30-125.el8_10
debian 11binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 12binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 13binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 14binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
echobinutils2.32.51.20190707-1
Oracle Linux 8binutils, binutils-devel2.30-125.0.1.el8_10
Red Hatbinutils, binutils-devel, mingw-binutils and 3 moreno fix listed
rocky 8binutils2.30-125.el8_10
root.io debian 12rootio-binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
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SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 3.0crash8.0.2-1.ph3
Photon OS 4.0crash8.0.2-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0crash-devel8.0.2-1.ph4
alma 8binutils2.30-125.el8_10
alma 8binutils-devel2.30-125.el8_10
debian 11binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 12binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 13binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
debian 14binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
echobinutils2.32.51.20190707-1
Oracle Linux 8binutils2.30-125.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux 8binutils-devel2.30-125.0.1.el8_10
Red Hatbinutilsno fix listed
Red Hatbinutils-develno fix listed
Red Hatmingw-binutilsno fix listed
Red Hatmingw-binutils-genericno fix listed
Red Hatmingw32-binutilsno fix listed
Red Hatmingw64-binutilsno fix listed
rocky 8binutils2.30-125.el8_10
root.io debian 12rootio-binutils2.32.51.20190707-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMbinutils2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
ubuntu 18.04binutils2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
ubuntu 18.04-ESMbinutils2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3

References

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