vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18701): libiberty vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2018-10-29
Added
2020-04-09
Modified
2024-11-15

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(s)

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