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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12641: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12641: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/22/2018
Created
08/06/2019
Added
08/06/2019
Modified
08/08/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

References

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