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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12698: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-12698: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/23/2018
Created
08/06/2019
Added
08/06/2019
Modified
08/06/2019

Description

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

Solution(s)

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

References

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