Bug 1595417 (CVE-2018-12697)

Summary: CVE-2018-12697 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, dvlasenk, erik-fedora, fweimer, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On: 1595428, 1595429, 1595430, 1595431, 1600236, 1600237    
Bug Blocks: 1595443    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 21:44:47 UTC 
A flaw was found in in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. A NULL pointer dereference (aka SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000) was discovered in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.


References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102 	
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454 	
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 21:55:04 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595429]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1595428]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595430]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:10:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2075 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:19:15 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12697