Bug 1595427 (CVE-2018-12699)

Summary: CVE-2018-12699 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.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: 1595432, 1595433, 1595434, 1595435, 1600270, 1600272    
Bug Blocks: 1595443    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 21:54:28 UTC 
A flaw was found in finish_stab in stabs.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write of 8 bytes.


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 21:56:26 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595435]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1595433]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595432]
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-14 18:03:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:9689 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9689