High
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12697
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-12697
Complete source record
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