CVE-2018-17985

Published: Oct 4, 2018Modified: Nov 21, 2024

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Gnu: Binutils

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Gnu Binutils	Version 2.31

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (10)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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