vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-18701: binutils: infinite recursion in next_is_type_qual and cplus_demangle_type functions in cp-demangle.c

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 29, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

Solution

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