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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-12698: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-12698: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/23/2018
Created
05/31/2019
Added
05/30/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-i386-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-sparc-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0

References

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