CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17985
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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 configurations
• gnu binutils 2.31
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ usn.ubuntu.com