CVE-2018-9138

Published: Mar 30, 2018Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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 cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

Affected (2)

Products: Gnu: Binutils

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Gnu Binutils	Version 2.29
Gnu Binutils	Version 2.30

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

References (6)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008

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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