CVE-2018-12934

high

Description

remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-06-28

Updated: 2020-04-21

Type: CWE-770

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH