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CVE-2018-12697

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

A NULL pointer dereference (aka SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000) was discovered in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This can occur during execution of objdump.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Canonical — Ubuntu LinuxGNU — Binutils

CWEs

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