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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Published: 2018-10-27
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-10417 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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() 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 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': 0.00468}

epss

{'score': 0.00353}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:16:00.391Z

Reserved: 2018-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18701

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-29T12:29:04.820

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:23.990

Link: CVE-2018-18701

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-10-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18701 - Bugzilla

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