Bug 1595417 – CVE-2018-12697 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.

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Bug 1595417 - (CVE-2018-12697) CVE-2018-12697 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.

Summary:	CVE-2018-12697 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from ...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-12697

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1595429 1595431 1600236 1600237 1595428 1595430
Blocks:	1595443
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Reported:	2018-06-26 17:44 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-07-11 15:52 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 17:44:47 EDT

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 17:55:04 EDT

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]

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