INFSA-2024:9689: binutils security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:9689

Type: security

Release date: 2024-12-13 11:30:10 UTC

Information about package

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2018-12699

    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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 0 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages