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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20657: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20657: binutils security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/02/2019
Created
02/27/2020
Added
02/26/2020
Modified
02/26/2020

Description

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

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