CVE-2018-18701

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.

References

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675

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

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3