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CVE-2018-12697

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12697 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in GNU libiberty, specifically within the cplus-dem.c component, affecting GNU Binutils and Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This flaw, triggered during objdump execution, carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity that can lead to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0523 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: binutils-0:2.27-41.base.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils220
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mingw-binutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-12697Low

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.

Apr 11, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2075
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
ExploitThird Party Advisory
gcc.gnu.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-01
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4326-1
usn.ubuntu.com / 4336-1
securityfocus.com / bid/104538
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry