vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18701): libiberty vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Oct 29, 2018 | Apr 9, 2020 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 29, 2018
Added
Apr 9, 2020
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
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.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutils-multiarchubuntu-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-upgrade-binutils-multiarchubuntu-upgrade-libiberty-dev
References
Rapid7 Labs
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