Description
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
Published: 2018-10-04
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-9724 An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4326-1 libiberty vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-1 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-2 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00132}

epss

{'score': 0.00177}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:01:14.693Z

Reserved: 2018-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-17985

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-04T23:29:00.807

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:55:19.937

Link: CVE-2018-17985

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-09-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-17985 - Bugzilla

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