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CVE-2018-12886

gcc: spilling of stack protection address in cfgexpand.c and function.c leads to stack-overflow protection bypass

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · May 22, 2019

Updated · March 3, 2026

Description

stack_protect_prologue in cfgexpand.c and stack_protect_epilogue in function.c in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.1 through 8 (under certain circumstances) generate instruction sequences when targeting ARM targets that spill the address of the stack protector guard, which allows an attacker to bypass the protection of -fstack-protector, -fstack-protector-all, -fstack-protector-strong, and -fstack-protector-explicit against stack overflow by controlling what the stack canary is compared against.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer