vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-20673: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, contains an integer overflow vulnerability (for "Create an array for saving the template argument values") that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by nm.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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