CVE-2018-18701

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31

published October 27, 2018

CVSS
—
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 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01686 · 76.8th percentile
Published
2018-10-27T16:00Z
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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