Bug 1595427 – CVE-2018-12699 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c

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Bug 1595427 - (CVE-2018-12699) CVE-2018-12699 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-12699 binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-12699

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

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Depends On:	1595435 1600270 1600272 1595432 1595433 1595434
Blocks:	1595443
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Reported:	2018-06-26 17:54 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-07-11 17:32 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 17:54:28 EDT

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 17:56:26 EDT

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]

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