Description
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD |
EUVD-2018-10416 | An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4326-1 | libiberty vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4336-1 | GNU binutils vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4336-2 | GNU binutils vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T11:16:00.418Z
Reserved: 2018-10-27T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-18700
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-10-29T12:29:04.710
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:23.843
Link: CVE-2018-18700
OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN