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Rocky Linux: CVE-2018-12699: binutils (RLSA-2024-9689)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2018-12699: binutils (RLSA-2024-9689)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/23/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/20/2024
Modified
11/27/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-binutils
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

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