See whether does it a defect on GNU Binutils (status update on 25th June 2018)

 

Bug (CVE-2018-7642) found GNU Binutils 2.30 on 24th Feb 2018. GNU Binary Utilities, or binutils, are a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code. The GNU compiler Collection (gcc) play a important role of software development. If a bug will be happened in compiler. We might imagine that it will effect the software development life cycle (SDLC). A bug found earlier this year on GNU Binutils hits system crash. But bug found on April 2018 looks expanded and not only system crash. Should you have interest, please refer below url for reference.

CVE-2018-12700 – https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

CVE-2018-12700 – https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

CVE-2018-12699 – https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

CVE-2018-12641 – https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85452

CVE-2018-12698 – https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

Bug found GNU Binutils 2.30 on 24th Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7642 – GNU Binutils 2.30