CVE-2018-12697 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2018-12697?

CVE-2018-12697 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12697?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnu Binutils.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12697?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-12697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12697, GHSA-c27h-c5hg-96w2, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12697.