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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9996: binutils 2.30-r1 security vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-9996: binutils 2.30-r1 security vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/10/2018
Created
12/28/2019
Added
12/27/2019
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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