CVE-2018-18700CWE-835

CVE-2018-18700

Medium · published October 29, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01686 · 76.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2018-10-29T16:29Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (6)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681 · [email protected]https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ · [email protected]https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ · [email protected]https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 OCT 16:00Z
    An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31
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