vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-17985): libiberty vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 4, 2018
Added
Apr 9, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 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 problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutils-multiarchubuntu-pro-upgrade-libiberty-dev
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