vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-18483: binutils: Integer overflow in cplus-dem.c:get_count() allows for denial of service

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 18, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.

Solution

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